Suppressor wait times

[Lisa/Southernlady]

Just sharing what I've read:

The DOJ directed the ATF to reduce eForm 4 processing times to 90 days in January of 2022. On 10/1/2022 the ATF current processing times are averaging 180 days for eForms. In December of 2022 it's taking an average of 8 months to process an eForm 4 & to process Paper Form 4 have taken 13 months.

While the directions of the DOJ sound great and promising the results are disappointing!

Good luck everyone!

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[Dave C.]

Just sharing what I've read:

The DOJ directed the ATF to reduce eForm 4 processing times to 90 days in January of 2022. On 10/1/2022 the ATF current processing times are averaging 180 days for eForms. In December of 2022 it's taking an average of 8 months to process an eForm 4 & to process Paper Form 4 have taken 13 months.

While the directions of the DOJ sound great and promising the results are disappointing!

Good luck everyone!

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Yeah, and there's no border crisis either.

 

[Gynaroo]

I submitted to the ATF for two suppressors on 4/11/22. 1st approval 12/30/22. 2nd approval 1/1/23. Why they didn’t come together is beyond me. But the wait was 262 and 264.

 

[Sled]

I submitted to the ATF for two suppressors on 4/11/22. 1st approval 12/30/22. 2nd approval 1/1/23. Why they didn’t come together is beyond me. But the wait was 262 and 264.

I didn't know they sent approvals on Sunday or holidays. Good to know.

Mine are in since 4.13.22 and 6.27.22. I'll probably wait to pick up both at the same time.

It sure would be nice if we had a fast lane for people that already have clearances or have been vetted consistently. Kind of like the tsa airport lines.

 

[CBB1]

Man, I certified 4/19 thinking I would surly have mine by hunting season. Lol. Hopefully soon. Hell at this rate if I did one today I probably still wouldn’t have it by next hunting season.


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[ChrisAU]

My two were 4/11 and 4/27. Checking my junk folder religiously lol. Ordered another one last week.

 

[Gynaroo]

I didn't know they sent approvals on Sunday or holidays. Good to know.

Mine are in since 4.13.22 and 6.27.22. I'll probably wait to pick up both at the same time.

It sure would be nice if we had a fast lane for people that already have clearances or have been vetted consistently. Kind of like the tsa airport lines.

I was shocked as well. But I received my email from the ATF this morning saying it was approved. I always worried it was going to the junk folder. Then I get those stupid emails from the ATF about system maintenance.

It came from ATF as an application status change in the subject.

 

[Colberjs]

I certified on 4/14. I should be getting a call this week sounds like. The approval creep is getting up there. Based on some other guys, I should’ve gotten a call the end of last week but I didn’t figure that would happen. It keeps getting longer and longer.

 

[spdrman]

Most recent one I picked up was Certified March 11 and was approved 12-22-22, first eFile was certified first week of February and was approved first week of September.

Certified another one in July, I'm not even going to think about it until Summer

 

[brianp]

Just sharing what I've read:

The DOJ directed the ATF to reduce eForm 4 processing times to 90 days in January of 2022. On 10/1/2022 the ATF current processing times are averaging 180 days for eForms. In December of 2022 it's taking an average of 8 months to process an eForm 4 & to process Paper Form 4 have taken 13 months.

While the directions of the DOJ sound great and promising the results are disappointing!

Good luck everyone!

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Very interesting. Do you think since its been one year since the demand, and conditions have extremely worsened, ATF could be held liable for this?

Realistically, that is. Not in the pro-2a dream land we find ourselves in sometimes lol.

 

[gabenzeke]

Very interesting. Do you think since its been one year since the demand, and conditions have extremely worsened, ATF could be held liable for this?

Realistically, that is. Not in the pro-2a dream land we find ourselves in sometimes lol.

By Merrick Garland? Don't hold your breath.

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[jshelton2006]

Just got approval email, 267 days from 4/14. Almost hit that 90 day approval…

 

[ChrisAU]

Submitted 4/11/22
Approved 1/4/23

Have another from 4/27 that I hope clears soon.

 

[tstith]

Certified 4/29/22. Your times are making me hopeful my can may clear soon. This is the longest 90 days I have ever experienced...

 

[12wander]

I don’t understand this wait time at all. You can walk in, buy a firearm, the dealer make a call for the background check and once cleared walk out with the said firearm in an hour or less if you have no flags in your background. Why can’t the same be done for a suppressor?

 

[IrkedCitizen]

I don’t understand this wait time at all. You can walk in, buy a firearm, the dealer make a call for the background check and once cleared walk out with the said firearm in an hour or less if you have no flags in your background. Why can’t the same be done for a suppressor?

That is the billion dollar question.

 

[highside74]

I don’t understand this wait time at all. You can walk in, buy a firearm, the dealer make a call for the background check and once cleared walk out with the said firearm in an hour or less if you have no flags in your background. Why can’t the same be done for a suppressor?

Because they think silencers are scary and whisper quiet like the movies. So they drag their feet doing the paperwork so people will be turned off by the process and not even bother. In an I want it now society a lot of guys won't fork over $1000 to have to wait 8-9 months for something.

 

[Sled]

Because they think silencers are scary and whisper quiet like the movies. So they drag their feet doing the paperwork so people will be turned off by the process and not even bother. In an I want it now society a lot of guys won't fork over $1000 to have to wait 8-9 months for something.

You have to remember when this started out in 1934 the tax stamp was $200. That was a lot of money back then and a purposeful deterrent to owning one. The money hasn't changed but the deterrent still exists in the form of wait time.

 

[Sled]

Certified 4.13.22
Approved 1.07.23

The email came at 5:01MST

Now I'll just let it sit until the other one gets there or I get on the other side of town for some reason.

 

[Colberjs]

Certified 4-14-22
Approved 1-8-23

Got my email at 4:41 am this morning.