Silencer Shop slower than the government?

[JimFromTN]

I started the process a month ago and they still have not submitted a form 3 yet.  I called the dealer and he said the silencer shop is the new hold up.  The ATF is the fast part of the process now.  How ironic.

[my82cam]

Where is your suppressor, is it at your LGS or out of state?  The form 3 is what's used to ship from dealer to dealer across state lines, silencer shop shouldn't have anything to do with that part of it.  Do you mean form 4?

[Alleycat72]

Silencer shop helped set up efileing with the atf. Silencer shop got preferential treatment on approval time because of it. Atf got their own system up and running. Silencer shops system is now an extra level of paperwork you need to get through if you want a suppressor from them.

[JimFromTN]

48 minutes ago, my82cam said:

Where is your suppressor, is it at your LGS or out of state?  The form 3 is what's used to ship from dealer to dealer across state lines, silencer shop shouldn't have anything to do with that part of it.  Do you mean form 4?

The suppressor is at the silencer shop in TX.  They have not shipped to my LGS who has one of their kiosks.  My LGS says they are backlogged with orders and are taking forever to send out suppressors.

[expendable]

I read somewhere that even though the form 4 times have dropped the form 3 times have gotten longer, so it may not all be Silencer Shops fault. 

[JimFromTN]

The ATF is saying Form 3 filed electronically is averaging 2 days.  That was Sept 1.  The silencer shop is saying 4 days.  I sent the silencer shop an email asking for some kind of eta.  They responded that Form 3 was approved recently and they would be shipping it out soon.  I will be curious to see how long before my LGS gets it.