30Jun22 Just got the call ready to be picked upCheck cashed Jun 8 2021…still waiting
Suppressors Form 4 wait time
Dealer called me today, my Trash Panda is available for pickup, just like 4 days shy of 14 months, im sure it will be the same story with my Wolfman that was submitted same day but check cashed 2 weeks later.
Nomad TI check cashed 4/29/21
Call from dealer 6/30/22
Call from dealer 6/30/22
i was thinking yesterday, it would be cool to see who is the last actual Form 4 stamp ever issued will be. i wonder if we would ever find out.
would be a cool little consolation prize for submitting around mid December last year. We probably wont know for another year though.
would be a cool little consolation prize for submitting around mid December last year. We probably wont know for another year though.
Has the ATF actually switched to E-File only? I thought they would still be taking paper form 4s
Still taking paper and I believe they will continue to do so but I would expect anyone w even minimal computer skills will go efile in the further.
Just picked up my can, and was talking with the dealer apparently February E-Filers are getting shafted. One man picked up his DA nomad-l after waiting 70 days.
I thought someone posted here their paper they just tried to send was turned back?
E-form 4 filed 4/14/22
Approved 6/30/22
In hand 7/1/22
On a Ruger Charger w/APG Arms folder.
Tell me about it… 7 months in (weeks from an approval) My Obsidian 45 got disapproved due to an ATF dealer audit, 3 months later they resubmitted it. Took another 4 months for the “expedited” processing. If I hadn’t called and talked with the nice examiner lady who was helping me with it, who instantly realized there was an issue, and that it had not been labeled as expedited for special processing. She was able to request it, and then approve it, and send out the stamp, and I had my can within 2 weeks of that phone call…Over the Christmas holidays. She went above and beyond.
Shows there’s still some good folks out there, even if the agency they work for is corrupt as hell.
Overall time of 14 months while the average time was 6-8.
I’ll never use that dealer again due to the incompetence displayed during the audit, and refusing to inform their customers what was going on. 
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paper went out on 11/05/21
e file went out on 02/05/22
still nothing the paper may beat the efile back
e file went out on 02/05/22
still nothing the paper may beat the efile back
I wouldn't hold my breath on that... My last 3 paper forms were 14, 11, and 13 months. I just picked up the last one Monday.
450 days today…
Absolutely ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Reach out to your congressman, Research UPIN, etc. Thank me later.
Seeing all these 450day ones has me worried.
Paper Form 4 submitted ~6/15/21 via MHSA, still waiting...
4x Form 4's on 12/23/21 submitted personally via certified mail, received all 4 back on 4/11/22. A little over 100 days on them. I guess I got lucky squeaking them in when everyone was starting eFile, or maybe the certified mail puts them on someone important's desk. Who knows.
I figured 14 months out on a can to make it for hunting season would make it comfortably... guess not.
Paper Form 4 submitted ~6/15/21 via MHSA, still waiting...
4x Form 4's on 12/23/21 submitted personally via certified mail, received all 4 back on 4/11/22. A little over 100 days on them. I guess I got lucky squeaking them in when everyone was starting eFile, or maybe the certified mail puts them on someone important's desk. Who knows.
I figured 14 months out on a can to make it for hunting season would make it comfortably... guess not.
Yep got 2 in jail there as well sitting at 14 and 12 months, all I do is laugh and laugh and cry.
I'm in LA also. My dealer told me in April they hadn't had an e-file go longer than 72 days. I'm at 91. Seems like it varies significantly.
Just hit 90 days.
That means I get my suppressor email this evening, right?
Guys? Right? I get my...suppressor....today?
That means I get my suppressor email this evening, right?
Guys? Right? I get my...suppressor....today?
I'm already 8 months on paper form. Only 8 more to go!
got a can approved in 76 days. i submitted two the same day, same dealer, identical everything. its 3 weeks later and the second can approval is nowhere in sight.
104 days efile and nothing 
May 17 cert date. So, today marks Day 50 for my first eForm 4, the OCL Hydrogen-S.
I have not called. I figured it's just there still pending.I guess didn't know there was anything to call about.
If you can get in touch with the actual examiner, and you specked into charisma, you might be able to get some movement. But, if you give up with the first contact at the ATF, all you’ll get is ‘still pending…’
Ultra 7 30 cal CB
Bought from Mile High 5/12/21
Tnt Guns received 5/21/21
Form 4 mailed 5/28/21
Tax stamp cashed 6/7/21
Approved 6/27/22
385 days.
Call from dealer 7/5/22
Picked up from dealer 7/5/22
Bought from Mile High 5/12/21
Tnt Guns received 5/21/21
Form 4 mailed 5/28/21
Tax stamp cashed 6/7/21
Approved 6/27/22
385 days.
Call from dealer 7/5/22
Picked up from dealer 7/5/22
Is your rifle scope bridged????
Finally.....fucking finally
TBAC 338 ULTRA SR
Check cashed 3/12/21
Stamp at dealer 7/1/2022
Can picked up 7/5/2022
Official wait time just under 1 year 4 months....what a joke.
Took about 485 days for me, hopefully your time is soon man
I think that we should be able to wait 485 days to mail in our property, state and federal taxes. LOL
15 months and counting
This process is a joke. “Latest and greatest” doesn’t exist in suppressors.
2 more comparable suppressors have come out since I paid for mine.
It would be nice to have the most up to date product in my hands and using it before other, better products come to market. Nope! Not when dealing with the ATF!!!
This process is a joke. “Latest and greatest” doesn’t exist in suppressors.
2 more comparable suppressors have come out since I paid for mine.
It would be nice to have the most up to date product in my hands and using it before other, better products come to market. Nope! Not when dealing with the ATF!!!
I am at 371 days for a paper form 4, just dying from the inside out.
Don’t give up hope. Well, give up hope in the ATF, but your stamp will come back!
148 days, and I'm finally home with my Dead Air Nomad 30.
Feb. 8th.
E-File
Individual.
I told my wife that I've been shooting in the garage, but she just couldn't hear it.
Feb. 8th.
E-File
Individual.
I told my wife that I've been shooting in the garage, but she just couldn't hear it.
Seems to be around 110/140 days now which is still 1/3 of the previous wait. I’m happy they have done something to approve the time. Since the government would rather delay it if anything to stop people from purchasing
Hopefully this doesn’t get to the point of Being 7-8 months like paper we’re a couple years back.
Lazy asss people at the atf & FBI
Currently at 139 days and counting on my e-file...
I think it was random and more so early in on efile most were inside of 90ndays
As of today I’m at 155 days and counting on an efiled form 4.
72 days for my most recent efile.
First 2 paper filed were 8-9 months
All in the same trust.
First 2 paper filed were 8-9 months
All in the same trust.
I figured out the real problem today. Except for a very few clerical staff answering phones, etc, all the NFA examiners are working "remotely". No phone number to reach them, just an email address.
Basically they are all working from home perpetually. So Fed employees working at Federal employee productivity from their couch.
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