Official NFA Transfer Times Thread

[cktenders]

1) NFA Item: Noveske SBR
2) Type: Form 4
3) Transferee: Trust
4) Forms Sent: 10/9/2011
5) Forms Recieved: 10/12/2011
6) Check Cashed: ?
7) Pending:10/27/11
8) Approved:______
9) Recieved:______

[Bonecraka]

1. NFA Item: SBR
2. Form Type: Form 1
3. Transferee Type: Individual
4. Form Delivered: 6/6/11
5. Check Cashed: 6/10/11
6. Pending Date: 6/21/11
7. Approved Date:10/18/11
8. Forms Received:10/25/11
9. Examiner Name: Sandra Snook

1. NFA Item: Suppressor
2. Form Type: Form 4
3. Transferee Type: Individual
4. Form Delivered: 7/1/11
5. Check Cashed: 7/6/11
6. Pending Date:7/19/11
7. Approved Date:
8. Forms Received:
9. Examiner Name: William Shipman

Last Call : 10/25/11

[Eurodriver]

1. NFA Item: SBR
2. Form Type: Form 1
3. Transferee Type: Individual
4. Form Delivered: 6/6/11
5. Check Cashed: 6/10/11
6. Pending Date: 6/21/11
7. Approved Date:10/18/11
8. Forms Received:10/25/11
9. Examiner Name: Sandra Snook

Stuff like this confuses me.

I have a Form 1 for an SBR that went pending with Snook on 6/23/11. 2 days after you. Mine is still pending and you're playing with your new toy already.

No rhyme or reason....

[Polymerhead]

Stuff like this confuses me.

I have a Form 1 for an SBR that went pending with Snook on 6/23/11. 2 days after you. Mine is still pending and you're playing with your new toy already.

No rhyme or reason....

I assume that fingerprints are batch-shipped to the FBI for processing a couple times a week. Depending on where you were your prints might have been at the bottom of the stack and his above. His would then be pulled and processed before yours. Complete, groundless speculation on my part. I know they batch-ship outbound forms back to us though, so it would make sense.

[viperashes]

1. NFA Item: Suppressor
2. Form Type: Form 4
3. Transferee Type: Trust
4. Forms Sent to BATF: 9/20/2011
5. Check Cashed: 10/5/2011
6. Pending: 10/7/2011
7. Approved:
8. Forms Received:
9. Examiner Name: Sara Jones

1. NFA Item: SBR
2. Form Type: Form 4
3. Transferee Type: Trust
4. Forms Sent to BATF: 9/20/2011
5. Check Cashed: 10/5/2011
6. Pending: 10/7/2011
7. Approved:
8. Forms Received:
9. Examiner Name: Sara Jones

The NFA Agent that I spoke to on the phone said that the average time right now is 5 months, so I'm probably looking at the first week of March. My forms should be in my dealers hands the week I get back from Afghanistan.

[Eurodriver]

Shorter Version:

1. NFA Item: SBR
2. Form Type: Form 1
3. Transferee Type: Trust
4. Forms Sent to BATF: 6/01/2011
5. Check Cashed: 06/15/2011
6. Pending: 06/29/2011
7. Approved: 10/25/2011
8. Forms Received:
9. Examiner Name: Sandra Snook

[El Cid]

ATF needs to get off their asses and do their damn jobs. This 140+ day wait is ridiculous and really inane to think that an agency so incompetent is in charge.

I don't know if I would lump the office cube employee in with the political leadership of any govt organization. I suspect the problem is that the number of applications exceeds the number of examiners. The people looking over our paperwork have no control over how many examiners ATF hires. Given the current political administration, I imagine that any thought of hiring more employees, so we can buy more guns/cans/etc. is not high on the list of things to do.

[Ghost__1]

I don't know if I would lump the office cube employee in with the political leadership of any govt organization. I suspect the problem is that the number of applications exceeds the number of examiners. The people looking over our paperwork have no control over how many examiners ATF hires. Given the current political administration, I imagine that any thought of hiring more employees, so we can buy more guns/cans/etc. is not high on the list of things to do.

I'm with this vote. I bet that they get thousands of forms a month. That and I believe they downsized one or two people recently as well. Couple that with a shift in process and its bound to be slow. Obviously this is just speculation.

[munch520]

1) NFA Item: SBR
2) Type: Form 1
3) Transferee: Trust
4) Forms Sent: 10/11/2011
5) Forms Recieved: 10/13/2011
6) Check Cashed: 10/21/11
7) Pending: 10/31/11
8) Approved:______
9) Recieved:______

Examiner: Nicole Dudash

Movin right along

[Moltke]

1) NFA Item: SBR
2) Type: Form 1
3) Transferee: Individual
4) Forms Sent: 11/1/2011
5) Forms Recieved: ______
6) Check Cashed: ______
7) Pending: ______
8) Approved:______
9) Recieved:______

Examiner: ???