I think some folks are under the illusion that eForms are going to be approved in 3 months?
From what I understand, the folks that got 'em done in 3 months were a "one time only" deal - they grabbed a bunch of applications and ran 'em thru the system to test it, and these are the folks that lucked up with only a 3 month wait.
I remember seeing in one of the ATF newsletters that they're expecting eForms to knock off 3 months of whatever the processing time for paper forms is (they had a chart comparing forms / times in the newsletter).
As reported, the last newsletter stated they had added extra help, and were burning thru the backlog at a pretty good rate (I think it was reported around 8% reduction in a month?). How long this will continue is anybody's guess.
I originally planned to use eForms, but whether my dealer decided he didn't want to mess with it or ?, who knows.
In about a week I'll be at the 6 month mark for mailing in my paper forms.