I think by eform they mean the silencer store app form 4, which is what all my silencers since 2017 have been on.
Again, NO. The Form 4 submitted by Silencer Shop is a PAPER Form 4. It's PAPER because ATF stopped the eForm 4's over six years ago.
<----Silencer Shop Powered By Dealer btw.
The silencer shop app form 4 still takes about 250 to 300 days.
Well, considering the average Form 4 processing time for a PAPER Form 4 is seven months according to ATF, the info at NFA Tracker seems to be a bit outdated/inaccurate/bogus, huh?
True, Silencer Shop updates the data from NFA Tracker daily. But garbage in, garbage out. NFA Tracker relies on information submitted by users.....NOT Silencer Shop.
Silencer Shop has no earthly idea how fast their Form 4's are processed by NFA Branch.....because once they submit your F4 and note "check cashed".......ATF doesn't provide any other update to SS or the receiving "Powered By Dealer". Silencer Shop doesn't get notified by anyone when the stamp is issued.
They have no need to bring back the old dot gov eForm 4, the silencer shop app is way better
Please stop. I don't know where you are getting your information, but I would never visit that forum or speak to that person again....'cause they are completely and wholly ignorant of all things NFA as well as what Silencer Shop actually does. If it's just your opinion you need to understand why eForms is better than paper. That you believe SS has an app, that eForm 4's are being processed tells me you are VERY confused or ill informed about the realities of NFA transfers.
1. eForms (for any NFA form) eliminates the slowest step in the process, the data entry clerk typing your NFA form info into their system. Eforms eliminates that step, reducing wait times by as much as 80%.
2. Five minutes of Googling or reading threads in this subforum will show how fast eForms processing is vs paper. It's no contest.
3. "The Silencer Shop app"? The only "app" they have is the one that takes your photos.....that's it. Nothing else.
4. Silencer Shop DOES make the process somewhat easier by having a fingerprint scanning kiosk and the cellphone photo app. It ain't magic, being that you can roll and submit your own prints and there are several free cellphone apps for taking a passport quality "selfie".
Want to know the ACTUAL NFA processing times as audited by the OMB?
Paper NFA Forms:
https://www.atf.gov/file/109676/download
eForms:
https://www.atf.gov/file/130416/download Note DAYS, not weeks or months.