[Rick Lee]

I bought a MG in July of 2023. I intentionally had it delivered to a shop that also has a range and lets people shoot their MGs while they're "in jail," a conjugal visit, if you will, while the tax stamp application is processed. In February they kicked it back for a clerical error (made by Silencer Shop) and that put me back at the end of the line. I overheard someone at the gun store talking about a Reddit thread that listed the emails of a lot of ATF examiners and that some folks had had luck emailing them to ask about the status of their tax stamp app. I did that in April and got an approval the next morning. So right around nine months from start to finish.

At some point in the last year I started reading about lightning fast turnaround times, sometimes 24 hrs. on silencers. ATF has an eForm option now that interfaces with Silencer Shop's eApp. When it works, it really, really works.