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I'm a type 7 FFL/SOT. I received approval this week for an online form 4 for a silencer transfer. It was completed on January 28, and took 129 days. This particular application was submitted without electronic fingerprints, and the buyer mailed his physical cards to the ATF. I have since done some with the electronic fingerprints submitted with the online form 4, and am anxious to see if that speeds the process up at all. I have several more online submissions pending, and am curious to see the average approval time.
No matter what, even though 129 days is longer than the 90 originally talked about, it's a big improvement over manual submissions. I have seen instances lately of the ATF employing some great common sense though. I had a customer with 3 pending paper submission form 4's. One submitted in August, one in October, and one in November. I received approval for all 3 at the same time. It was at 8 months for the August submission, but obviously faster for the other 2. All signed by the same examiner. They obviously saw the other pending apps and went ahead and approved all of them. I thought that was a great sign of someone doing what made sense.
No matter what, even though 129 days is longer than the 90 originally talked about, it's a big improvement over manual submissions. I have seen instances lately of the ATF employing some great common sense though. I had a customer with 3 pending paper submission form 4's. One submitted in August, one in October, and one in November. I received approval for all 3 at the same time. It was at 8 months for the August submission, but obviously faster for the other 2. All signed by the same examiner. They obviously saw the other pending apps and went ahead and approved all of them. I thought that was a great sign of someone doing what made sense.
