Quick reminder, tomorrow is the last day to file if you have a trust and want to avoid the issues with the new system. So if you want to make a Short Barreled Shotgun, Short Barreled Rifle, AOW, Silencer, or transfer one of those or a machine gun, today and tomorrow are good days to do it for folks who hold their NFA items in a trust.
For those that don't know, when filing to add an NFA item to a trust Wednesday or later, you will have to provide 2 sets of fingerprints and pictures of everyone on the trust to the BATFE. You will also be required to send a copy of the trust with all that information to your local chief law enforcement officer. (Something not required now. My CLEO has no clue to what I have in my trust and I want to keep it that way. None of his GD business.)
For those that want to file as individuals, the system is getting easier. You no longer need permission from the local chief law enforcement officer in your application. That permission will become a notification after Wednesday.
The eFile system is stressed out, lots of users pushing it past its limits. The system not working is common now. However, a postmark on a paper application tomorrow will work.
Those going in now, with the increased volume, I expect first of next year before approval arrives.
For those that don't follow this niche of the gun world, here is a graph sent out by the BATFE last week showing the increase in numbers of these items transfered.
I suspect that last year will be greater than the year before, and this year will blow the top off that with the semi-panic that is hitting due to rule changes.
Hard to believe that gun owners are pumping more than quarter billion dollars into that department each year just in NFA tax stamps!!!
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