Re: Really long wait time!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chainring</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sounds to me like that's what this guy did - send it and forget it, and this is where it got him. Buddy of mine had the same experience, dropped off his check for the dealer to throw in the packet and mail out. He didn't want to agonize over the wait, so he made a point to just try not to think about it - I'm telling him to ride herd on it the whole time and make sure everything is moving along. Finally, after 5 months (this was several years ago) I made him give me his serial number and I called NFA....no record of that can after it's transfer to the dealer, nothing pending, just nothing. Call the dealer, "Oops, I never mailed the packet...I'll mail it today." So...5 months longer than it should have taken, he gets his suppressor without even a word of apology. In retrospect, he should have made them give him a complete refund and taken his business elsewhere - there is NO excuse for that kind of carelessness with NFA-related paperwork. (Another lesson to learn there is MAIL YOUR OWN PAPERWORK!) Those guys have shut down since, actually got caught letting LE buddies take their NFA items home before the forms cleared. Anyway, fire and forget is not the way to do NFA. I'm not saying be impatient or unrealistic, but take the responsibility for checking on it. Call NFA after a couple weeks and make sure it's there and pending.
Down here in Texas, some folks have gotten 4 month turnarounds recently, so start checking periodically after a reasonable amount of time has gone by for it to be approved. Dealers are busy. Your papers can sit on their shelf for weeks if you don't find out that you've been approved and call them. A cousin in Lubbock had that happen to him - dealer just never called him. I always call my dealer to let him know when one gets approved so he will be looking for the paperwork in the mail. Don't wait for somebody to do this shit for you, or it won't get done! Fire and forget is a recipe for disaster with NFA.
Have your serial, name of your dealer and name of your trust, etc.
Call NFA: "Hi, need to run a serial number past you."
"OK, give me the number."
"Serial number is ___________, dealer doing the transfer is __________ and my name/trust is ____________."
"OK, that went pending on __________/was approved on _________."
"Thanks very much for your time!"
"You're welcome, have a nice day."
"You, too, bye!"
Boom, you took less than a minute of their time, were polite and concise, and you know the status of you item. It's not hard. </div></div>
Well maybe I am just lucky because I have only ever had one issue with a transfer and that was because my dealer forgot to sign and date one line on the form 4. So it was taken care of but I send them out myself from my mailbox as I have to have the forms to updated my trust and I know they are gone that day. I forget about them till about the 5.5-6 month mark then I might call. I have generally forgot about 3/4 of them and then I get a call out of nowhere saying "come meet me at my office to pick up your suppressors". I like the surprise factor, makes it fun.
I have done a lot of transfer..... it never gets old.