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Offline DeadNutz

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ATF speeds up times for NFA items
« on: December 25, 2021, 03:17:30 PM »
The ATF is going digital with the applications for NFA items. They want to reduce the wait time for getting automatic weapons, short barrel firearms and suppressors. This is a good deal to speed up jumping through the hoops for the unconstitutional NFA laws.

This was posted on Bearing Arms:
It is now faster for Americans to buy sound suppressors, machine guns, and short-barreled firearms.

The ATF delivered an early Christmas present to those looking to buy items regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) by offering a digital application process on Thursday. The move is part of the agency’s efforts to significantly reduce the months-long processing times for those products. The ATF said that digitizing the tax registration form and fingerprint requirement for transferring NFA items to new owners will substantially impact the overall process.
“This is an ongoing Bureau modernization and data migration project which includes the eForms system,” Erik Longnecker, a spokesperson for the agency, told The Reload. “However, one of the more notable updates is the return of the ATF eForm 4 to the system.”

The ATF has been attempting to move to a digital system for many of its required forms for several years now and has successfully reduced backlogs associated with other registration forms. In addition to offering a digitized registration form for NFA transfers, the agency also upgraded its entire digital infrastructure for handling digital registration forms of all kinds.

Still, the reduced wait times from the new digital process could encourage gun owners to pick up more of every category of NFA item. Ian McCollum, a firearms historian and collector who runs the popular site Forgotten Weapons, said the current process utilizing physical forms mailed to the ATF can take nine months or longer to complete. He said the ATF aims to get that number down to 90 days by the end of 2022 and 30 days by the end of 2023.


Offline slip knot

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Re: ATF speeds up times for NFA items
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2021, 06:57:24 PM »
Form 1 wait time has been pretty low but the Form 4 have taken a long time. 30 days versus 9 months +. Wonder what they do for the fingerprint card?