NFA Approval after January 1

[AZ Gator]

What kind of source are you looking for? Go check out the tracking thread at r/NFA and see if you see a pattern. From what I've been seeing there is a pretty clear pattern, individual F4s coming in at a week or under, and trusts, even 1 RP coming in at a month +-.

The F4 I got back on a trust last week went about a month, up from a week for the one before in November and two days and 29hrs respectively for the two I did early last year.

Do what you want, but the pattern looks real enough for me to put my next one in as an individual. A month isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things, but with $0 transfers I'd rather wait a month with it in hand than a month to get it in hand.

The ATF data is behind by a month, so I didn’t know if there was a better data source. For January, individual F4 average 10 days and trust F4 averaged 11 days, according to ATF. That is for completed and correct F4s. Which is another potential source of error if folks leave that out of what they post (I know people on the internet would never mislead other people on the internet).

It seems like things really sped up by mid February, so it will be interesting to see the numbers for February and so on. I just have a hard time believing individual F4 got noticeably faster while trust F4 got way slower.

Silencer Shop published data is median, which I would rather see average.

Everyone is certainly free to choose their own path, I just haven’t seen a trend that indicates a significant benefit in time for individual.

 

[IdahoHntr]

The ATF data is behind by a month, so I didn’t know if there was a better data source. For January, individual F4 average 10 days and trust F4 averaged 11 days, according to ATF. That is for completed and correct F4s. Which is another potential source of error if folks leave that out of what they post (I know people on the internet would never mislead other people on the internet).

It seems like things really sped up by mid February, so it will be interesting to see the numbers for February and so on. I just have a hard time believing individual F4 got noticeably faster while trust F4 got way slower.

Silencer Shop published data is median, which I would rather see average.

Everyone is certainly free to choose their own path, I just haven’t seen a trend that indicates a significant benefit in time for individual.

Look at this thread. I haven’t seen a single trust being approved in less than a week while almost every individual submitted in February was just a few days. Pretty good sample there. My SOT has also said individuals are coming back significantly faster than trusts. Again, a couple weeks to a month ain’t a big deal, but it sure seems individuals are significantly faster right now.

 

[Gtscotty]

It seems like things really sped up by mid February, so it will be interesting to see the numbers for February and so on. I just have a hard time believing individual F4 got noticeably faster while trust F4 got way slower.

Things haven't sped up for trusts. Why would you have a hard time believing that individuals sped up and trusts didn't? That isn't a novel thing, there were years where that was the norm, having them come through at the same time was what was new. Do what you want, but the trends are pretty clear.