first post and to be honest I only created the account to participate in this thread.
I too as a few other members on here filed two under this provisions on the 6th of Feb. both have a internal control numbers assigned via efile. The actual time stamps was less than 20 minutes apart with 100 other control numbers entered between the two. As another member stated at the time I noticed that ATF advised a 30 day processing time which had been changed to 40 days. I have found the processing times to be highly optimistic and to add at least 10 to 14 days to what ATF advises on processing.
I see several are arguing the constitutional aspect of the ruling. Until it (the ruling) is overturned or deemed unconstitutional by a higher court ...... it is the law and is Constitutional in the eyes of the law, regardless of what I or anyone on this board thinks . UNTIL a Court deems it UNLAWFUL or Unconstitutional. While I'm not in the favor of the ruling by the attorney general the facts are what they are.
Now I'm not a lawyer, Just a Retired Old Disabled Soldier with 36 years of service and as a sidebar worked/ owned as a FFL with S.O.T. and without since before the FOPA was even debated. Currently I'm fully retired. But right now it seems to me that if approved with tax stamp affixed or not they bear the classification of SBR and will be entered into NFRTR unless the court specifically Strikes the Attorney General's authority to add firearms into the NFRTR as well as smiting the brace rule. which I DONT see happening, it could but I don't think so. One has to recall the law under the provisions of the NFA/1968 GCA/FOPA ATF is acting under the authority of the Attorney General of the US. Heck I can remember a time when ATF was not authorized to carry a gun or had arrest powers they did not come to be ATF until 1975.
Once entered into the NFRTR it will remain there until it is either removed upon request of the applicant certifying that it has been converted to a Title I firearm OR destroyed. The Third way is that it has been deactivated.
I also noticed that some was mentioning including the Photographs of their weapons with the Fingerprint cards and passport photos. I didn't include such a photo as the instructions next to the block stated " MAY" therefore I didnt add them if they are needed they will ask and I will provide.