New ATF eForm Submission

[shademtarmory]

Here's some good news!!! This is part of an email that I received...

NFA eForms are finally here!!!! ATF is pleased to announce the implementation of the NFA forms into ATF’s eForms system. ATF Forms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 are currently available for eForms submission.

The submission of Forms 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 can only be done by a Federal firearms licensee who has paid the special (occupational) tax for the current Tax Year.

If the submission of the form requires fingerprints, photographs, and the Law Enforcement Certification, the submission cannot be done using eForms – the application must be submitted on paper to the NFA Branch. Accordingly, Forms 1, 4 and 5 may be submitted using eForms if the applicant maker or transferee is a legal entity, such as a corporation, trust, or LLC. The submission of the application will require that the documents establishing the legal entity be attached electronically to the application.

For Forms 1 or 4 that are submitted with making or transfer tax due, the tax payment will be made through Pay.Gov, just prior to the submission of the application. Pay.Gov is a system, of the US Treasury’s Financial Management, that allows the submitter to pay the tax by credit/debit card or from a bank account. For detailed information on Pay.gov you can visit their website at www.pay.gov.

So basically, if you're filing a Form 1 as a trust, LLC, or Corp.; you can sign up for eForms without being a FFL and submit it online. If you're filing a Form 4, you'll have to have your FFL/SOT file it for you. Again, this is only for filing as a trust, LLC, or Corp. Any individual applicants must file the paperwork via the mail.

This does mean that the transfer paperwork (Form 3) from dealer to dealer has sped up to a matter of less than a week. That means that your dealer can get your NFA item in much quicker than the older fax/mail method which usually took up to a month (or more). However, the Form 3 process is only sped up if BOTH FFL/SOTs are members of eForms.

Here's the link to the eForms website: https://www.atfonline.gov/EForms/

[Kramer]

It's not fully up and running yet and many dealers are having issues trying to use it. The ATF has stated that they are working on the issues.

Realistically, when it's working it will only save the mailing time for the Form 1 and 4 entities. Everything else is the same.

For Form 2 and 3 it should speed things along when it's finally fixed and working properly.

[shademtarmory]

It does have its bugs. But so far things have been moving pretty quickly. It's still a work in progress I guess. Go figure.


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