ATF sure taking their good sweet time!

[DirtNap35]

I did mine in April 2023 and still haven't gotten anything back.

 

[thepizzaguy]

lol I'm going on 27 months partner. Hopefully they hustle for both of us

 

[Tom264]

27 months???
What???
That's just not right.

 

[deputyrpa]

Think there is any way to petition the director (or whomever) to implement time-frames for reviews?

I work at the local government level in our county, and we administer a bunch of DEP programs. Most of them have a "permit decision guarantee" timeframe in which we/DEP must issue a decision on the permit application. Doesn't mean approval, I'm fact the decision may be "denied" or needs more info before approval, etc. But at least the applicant has an idea of what the max review time will be.

Doesn't seem unreasonable to ask the same of the ATF.

In NY at the state level, decision time frames are in law. However, there are ways to stop the clock which were not contemplated by the state legislature, and regularly abused by staff who just refused to make decisions for mostly personal reasons and fear of being sued by greenie groups. Yes, regularly. Appointed politicians at the executive just ignored law for optics and overruled staff - halting time frames for purely political reasons. They would say it was a entirely legitimate political decision, and my reply would be that the legislature already made those. Ahhhhh.....the most enjoyable part of my job was de-bureaucraticizing government for the people, and watching others at my level get some balls and follow my lead.

Although I haven't read into it, I would imagine that the ATF has to abide by federal Administrative Procedures laws. Although suits alleging violations of AP laws usually do not change the decision outcome (judges defer to "experts" for approvals or denials), they do force action on applications and cause policy changes when AP procedures have been found incorrectly applied or ignored.

 

[KyCarl]

They are just doing as told! Slow walk anything that has to do with firearms!

 

[boulderchild]

lol I'm going on 27 months partner. Hopefully they hustle for both of us

E form or paper? That reminds me of the late 90's early 2000's wait times

 

[Knight]

Incase those who are frustrated waiting for clearance of docs must realize, it's all by design. Its simple, those people who you trust really don't want you to own them. Unfortunately it will get worse if you don't Vote! You've been warned!

 

[Brijake]

Are they only taking eForms now or has anyone tried paper application?

 

[Schroedernd]

My first 7 cans were 12 to 15 months. I efiled last year for the first time and got my most recent one approved in 6 months.

 

[bengineer]

I have had two customers (that I know of) call/write our representative and get nearly immediate results. One was a decorated war hero, one was an ordinary citizen. They do work for us and the House does hold the purse strings.

 

[Buzzsaw]

the whole process is BS. I will order another just to pizz off the ATF. freekin government

 

[Tom264]

Incase those who are frustrated waiting for clearance of docs must realize, it's all by design. Its simple, those people who you trust really don't want you to own them. Unfortunately it will get worse if you don't Vote! You've been warned!

Ok.
What about those people that gets theirs back in just a few months?
Heck there's a few on here that mentioned weeks..
Is that by design they get theirs first while some of us have to wait nearly a year?

 

[Can2Juan]

Next week I will be at 1 year waiting on efile from MileHigh

 

[longbeard]

Too bad that we cannot pay our taxes at the same speed that the feds process our tax stamps!