David Goldman, a Florida NFA trust attorney
announced on his site today that ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) can process Form 1s online again. While there is no word on electronic processing of Form 4 -- there is word that ATF is hiring at least a dozen legal examiners to help with the application load. The ATF reports processing loads around 6,000 a week, with a backlog of 62,000. Hopefully, the turnaround time for applications with move closer to the 10 week-window, rather than the 9-15 months seen in the past few months.
In the last month, ATF received more than 17,800 applications and processed more than 22,4000 applications.
Today I received an announcement and verified that you can now process Form 1s online again. For those with a Gun Trust, you can now process these electronically again. Still no word on when Form 4s will be available to process online.
If you are trying to predict the process timeline for an NFA item, you might the
NFA tracker website helpful.
