the Real Alpo
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The ATF doesn't do a background check. Once your paperwork is submitted to the ATF it's currently taking about 4 to 5 months to get your tax stamp back, and during that time there's no actual background check taking place.
Once the tax stamp comes back, you fill out a 4473 like you were buying any other firearm. If you got your silencer (or other Title 2 firearm) through a trust or corporation, your dealer then does a normal instant backgroud check like they would for a normal gun. If you had a sign-off by your chief law enforcement officer that exempts you from the instant background check. Some states have different rules, but that's how it is in most NFA-friendly states.
Why would you have to fill out a 4473? If you check the 2nd page of a Form 4, questions 15 - 20 ARE the questions from a 4473.
https://www.atf.gov/file/61546/download
Only things I don't see there, that are on a 4473, is my race, where I was born, and my social. Since they have my picture, they know my race. I don't give them my Social anyway.