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http://www.guns.com/2013/07/23/atf-r...r-application/
The part about automatic approval or shorter times seems like a pipe dream to me. But I would love to have a quicker turn around on forms once you've already had one approved.
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http://www.guns.com/2013/07/23/atf-r...r-application/
The part about automatic approval or shorter times seems like a pipe dream to me. But I would love to have a quicker turn around on forms once you've already had one approved.
What they need to do is not make it a stamp requirement. Its asinine considering the pistols we have today. I get back in the day when they had low capacity handguns but now we can have Ar pistols etc.
I know fundamentally and on principal I shouldn't, but I'd be fine with just the normal BGC and $200 auto-approve stamp for SBR/silencer.
I live in a shall-issue state for CCW, and the deadline for them to issue is 90 days (granted I got mine in 18 days). Are you still okay with a 6mo or longer wait? That's the biggest reason why I haven't SBR'd my current stripped lower, because I am not generally patient when it comes to new toys.
However, if they removed the CLEO signature, and made the forms electronic that I could access online and pay online, I would be more tempted to SBR things.
Frankly the SBR/SBS section of the 1934 National Firearms Act should have been removed when they removed the ban on handguns from the bill to gain passage (originally handguns would have been treated like full auto ... $200 tax stamp and registration, but it was doomed to fail so they yanked the handgun ban out. The SBR and SBS language was in there to prevent people from cutting down rifles and shotguns as a loophole to get around the handgun rules. Once the handgun ban was removed it just became a stupid and arbitrary law).
I almost bitched you out right there.
I'm not an Adams County resident. Jeff Co, actually. Mink will sign off.
My point was more along the lines of, Darr won't even sign off on SO employees, let alone normal folks.
Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.
Do a gun trust... Dave Weaver down here in Douglas Co is the same way and he owns NFA items. He won't sign anyones including cops. All but one of the form 4's I've seen returned for errors were by sheriffs. Do a trust.
BTW, We've heard all of this before Oblowme got into office. Was a lot of talk about removing suppressors from the NFA requirements as they were so common and the $200 didn't cover the cost of the process. AND....
Of course they would when I'm already sending of SBR paperwork. I'm sure they'll change it the day after they start mine in the process just because that's my luck. Also considering a couple additional suppressors.
Did I miss the part where it said they would not still be taking money?
Nope.. they just said they'd take it faster!
All this means is it's going to take six months instead of twelve. Oh wait didn't it used to take six months?
Now that I've finally had time to read what is being proposed this is NOT going to make the process any easier and in fact will make it more difficult.
BTW, the article talks about form 5320.1 which is NOT the form to apply for SBR. That is a Form 1. Form 5320.1 is the form to Certify your Compliance with the Citizenship required for Form 1 to be processed. They want to change the format to 8.5x14? Fuck that shit! They just keep doing little things to make it more and more difficult to jump through all the hoops. Now they're adding another hoop (how many of you have the ability to print 8.5 x 14" documents front & back easily) under the guise of streamlining? This shit is SO annoying! This doesn't streamline shit... it makes it even more complicated for the average Joe to print off the forms he needs at home and prepare them for sending off. The debit/credit card versus check thing is pointless and saves zero time. With recent changes in laws to how checks are processed it takes a couple of days for out-of-state checks to clear and it takes about the same time for a credit card charge to clear a ACH anyway. Funds are actually in their account at the same time and you know they're not budging until they get paid either way. Hell, if they wanted they could 'instantly' and electronically process your checks upon receipt in the exact same way they process credit/debit cards currently.
Other than the extra paperwork and the tax, does anyone know exactly what the BATFE does when processing an NFA item? I mean, a CBI takes minutes (again... finally). What else is BATFE doing with the application?
The 9 active examiners take less than ten minutes per Form, on average, once it hits their desk. The long wait comes from the hundreds of thousands of applications stacked up in piles everywhere, waiting to be processed, as new applications roll in at the rate of 10,000 per month or so. 2 weeks to a month to make it into the pile, 7 to 8 months in the pile, then another week or two getting sent out in the mail to the transferror.
http://www.vmgin.com/arfcom/stack.jpg
wow - 10,000 per month. $2M a month in fee income, $24M annually. They should hire some more examiners but then some welfare witch wouldn't get her EBT.
Wow, dude. Just wow. This just solidifies my belief that this whole NFA system is a sham. Seriously, an SBR is a pistol with a buttstock and a suppressor is a F'n muffler for a gun.
Don't forget the $500 tax on retailers et al annually and the "just wait" for the new SOT every year.
That is unbelievable! Have they never heard of "digital"? If you can renew your car registration online, they should be able to process this stuff with a few key strokes and issue you a digital "yes" so you can go get your NFA item from the SOT. The idea of "streamline" and "paper" is an oxymoron.
Well this picture explains a lot.
http://www.vmgin.com/arfcom/stack.jpg
All that paperwork and damn near 50% of the examiners standing around doing nothing.