Current ATF Processing Times
The real paperwork clock behind every suppressor, SBR, and NFA transfer in the country — pulled from ATF's own published data and refreshed automatically every week.
If You Filed Today
Make & Register (Suppressor, SBR, SBS, AOW Build)
ATF’s published average for Form 1 · eForms applications it has recently finished processing. An average is not a promise — your own application can be faster or considerably slower depending on how complete it is and what ATF’s queue looks like that month.
Source: ATF.gov — Current Processing Times (National Firearms Act Division). Figures are published averages, not guarantees — actual timelines vary by application completeness, form type, and ATF caseload. Ferrum Arms’ own FFL filing (Form 7) runs on this same federal clock.
What Each Form Actually Is
If you’ve never filed one, the form numbers don’t tell you much. Here’s what each queue above is for.
You’re making an NFA item yourself — building an SBR, a suppressor, an SBS, or an AOW. Approved before you build, not after.
You’re buying an NFA item from a dealer. This is the one most people are waiting on, and the reason the $200 stamp is famous. Individual and trust filings run on separate clocks.
A tax-exempt transfer — government entities, estates passing to an heir, and similar. Same review, no transfer tax.
Permission to move an NFA item across state lines. Required for most interstate transport of registered items.
The Federal Firearms License application itself. This is the queue Ferrum Arms is sitting in right now — which is exactly why we track it in public.
These Numbers In Context
A Form 4 average only means something once you know where it sits in the process. Our step-by-step walkthrough places these figures inside the full timeline — separately for individuals and for trusts — and reads them from this same ATF data, so the two pages can never disagree.
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Watching The Same Clock
Our Form 7 is in that queue. Get a note the day it clears and Ferrum Arms opens.
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