ATF Kills Controversial Program that Fast-Tracked Applications for NFA Items

[ray1970]

Government can't do anything too efficiently because it sets a standard and would be expected.

[Eric P]

Gun stores should be going this and collecting the stamp money.

Whst does the NFA check that's not checked on a normal gun buy check?

[O2HeN2]

The simplist thing that the ATF could do is to catalog all incoming applications and when an application get approved, pull ALL the other applications that are in the pipe for that one person/trust and approve them at the same time, instead of dong the same time consuming process for all of them, one by one.

In other words, if I submit a stamp today, three months from now, six months from now and a year from now and I get approved 14 months after my first application, I get all four stamps approved, all at once.

This would have the effect of clearing out a HUGE backlog and in the long run reduce turnaround time because they'd be clearing out the backlong as they handle the oldest requests.

But no....

O2

[Gman]

Get out of here with that logic and efficiency.

The only thing the government is efficient with is wasting our money.

[vossman]

The simplist thing that the ATF could do is to catalog all incoming applications and when an application get approved, pull ALL the other applications that are in the pipe for that one person/trust and approve them at the same time, instead of dong the same time consuming process for all of them, one by one.

In other words, if I submit a stamp today, three months from now, six months from now and a year from now and I get approved 14 months after my first application, I get all four stamps approved, all at once.

This would have the effect of clearing out a HUGE backlog and in the long run reduce turnaround time because they'd be clearing out the backlong as they handle the oldest requests.

But no....

O2

Now that’s a good idea.

[Jer]

The simplist thing that the ATF could do is to catalog all incoming applications and when an application get approved, pull ALL the other applications that are in the pipe for that one person/trust and approve them at the same time, instead of dong the same time consuming process for all of them, one by one.

In other words, if I submit a stamp today, three months from now, six months from now and a year from now and I get approved 14 months after my first application, I get all four stamps approved, all at once.

This would have the effect of clearing out a HUGE backlog and in the long run reduce turnaround time because they'd be clearing out the backlong as they handle the oldest requests.

But no....

O2

I think they're attempting to do something akin to this unofficially. They're just effing it up which should come as no surprise.

I know of a guy (notice I didn't say I knew him directly in case "they're" monitoring?) who had well in excess of a dozen pending. His last few went in many months after my first of four. Before I got my first back he got all of them at once. I still waited for my for to trickle their way in one at a time over several months (years?)

[Rucker61]

This sucks so badly, as I wait for ATF to cash my check

[Irving]

The logo for the Fast Track program must have been a friendly dog.

[brutal]

The logo for the Fast Track program must have been a friendly dog.

Bullet free?

[Aloha_Shooter]

Be careful what you wish for. The more automated the process is, the more information is stored in the vast government cloud. The more consistent the process is, the less flexibility examiners have. In some respects, I don't mind the ATF's files looking like the big warehouse at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".