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[Tucker301]

With a business man in the white house, it seems to me that the government might be more receptive towards ways to improve efficiency, streamline tasks, and present more product for less cost to the consumer, thus increasing revenues.

With that in mind:

If the BATF would cut form 4 lead times to ______ weeks, and reduce cost of the tax stamps to _______, they would increase revenues by a factor of ________.

 

[Tucker301]

If the BATF would cut form 4 lead times to 8 weeks, and reduce cost of the tax stamps to $100, they would increase revenues by a factor of 10X.

 

[vh20]

Brilliant. But there are bureaucrats involved...

 

[smokin.338]

Might be kind of true if it wasn't such a PITA now with New requirements for forms... plenty of people (myself included) just don't want to bother these days. Lead times were fine before the Panic buying (41F) started...

 

[317millhand]

If the BATF would cut form 4 lead times to instant or 1 week, and reduce cost of the tax stamps to $100, they would increase revenues by a factor of 500 to 1000%

 

[mdmp5]

If you want what you are asking, they would have to eliminate the stamps altogether, as in pass the safe hearing act. It would be virtually impossible for the atf to significantly cut lead times without a major increase in examiners.

I think they have like 12 or so now. With lead times at nearly a year, if they doubled the size of the dept, you'd get 6 months? Quadruple to get 3 months? And so forth. These are just loose examples but the point is that the NFA dept historically was under staffed because there just weren't that many forms to process. In the last 7-8 years, the demand has climbed unexpectedly and they did add about 4 examiners back in around 2011 or so. It helped, but wasn't a drastic decrease in lead time purely mathematically. For them to drastically increase the size of the dept, what happens when they are entirely caught up due to quenching the demand? They will be overstaffed and look to cut it again.

Just remember that these examiners come into work every day with a virtual stack of forms on their desk that never shrinks. Literally thousands per guy. The only real answer is deregulation of cans.