It took 299 days since the day I ordered it, and 190 days since I went pending, but I just got the call from my dealer that my paperwork has come back.
I (well, my trust) now own a .22 suppressor. Picking it up tomorrow today. (ETA: Couldn’t wait. My Precious!)
Sending off a new Form 4 for a 7.62 can shortly. Based on the trend, I suspect it’ll be about 9 months to get it approved.
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
But I’m sure it’ll only be used on crazy right-wing tea party iraq war vets terrorists.
It’s not just you.
It’s definitely taking longer now than it did a year ago. The author thinks that about a year ago a new process was put in place, and that process is creating a backlog. It’s not just that more people are buying NFA items.
This may, or may not, be intentional. At this early point in his analysis, it appears that for every 2.5 days you wait, that adds 1 day to the processing time.
So if you submit your paperwork on June 30th as opposed to June 1st, you won’t get it 30 days later than someone who submitted on the 1st: it’s more like 42.
And the trend is getting worse. In February, the increase was one day every three days. Even if the trend is steady now, that still means that paperwork submitted a year from now will take 146 days longer than something submitted today.
I do agree that at some people, perhaps a significant portion, will not put up with 18-month or two-year wait times. Supply, demand, some assembly required.
I’m still waiting on my stamp, but I expect it in the next week or so. I went pending in mid-November.
As non-RSS readers may have noticed, I now have a link on the sidebar to join the NRA*. While I have had some criticism for their marketing plan in the past, I still think it’s a valuable organization–especially at the federal level.
As a long-time member of the Tennessee Firearms Association, I have seen first hand the immense value that state level organizations have. Robb has, too.
So I am aware of the TFA, Florida Carry, CalGuns, the Illinois State Rifle Association, and The Texas State Rifle Associaion. Other states, not so much.
I could Google “$state gun rights” but I might end up with false-flag or fringe operations, so I’m asking readers to point me to the right place. I want to have a page here that lists all the state organizations to make it easy for newbies to find.
If you know a state organization, please leave a comment with the name and URL. I appreciate it!
*If you join via that link or the link in the sidebar, you’ll get $10 off a 1 year subscription.
Sorry for the lack of posting. I was out of town on business this week, working 18 hour days in sunny Florida. Don’t be jealous: I could’ve been in North Dakota and would have barely noticed.
Sometime in the last 18 months or so, the pornoscanners in Nashville went from “randomly selected passengers” to “anyone not holding an infant.” Thus ends any non-essential travel for me and my family. Sorry, Boomershoot… I wish we could have met.
“Nightclub” is apparently Floridian for “Strip Joint.”
Living in Nashville spoils you for bar music–or any live music really. There are many people getting paid to sing in bars who have no business near a microphone.
Celebrity impersonators are hilarious.
The Panama City Beach Airport is approximately the size of your average high school. There were probably 15 idiots who couldn’t get jobs in a respectable profession TSA folks manning the single security line. Even with that amount of manpower, it still took 20 minutes to start the patdown on the guy who opted out. A few minutes later, the septuagenarian who forgot to take a gum wrapper out of his pocket was swarmed, swabbed for explosives, patted down, and searched thoroughly.
I think next year I’m going to try to get the company to charter a plane instead. It’s surprisingly affordable when you have 8-10 folks going.
A 3D printer for $399?
YES PLEASE.
It doesn’t include “electronics,” which will add another $150-$300 depending on your sourcing.
I am kinda sad that my attempt at building a CNC router stalled out in January. It sits there on my workbench taunting me, with it’s x and y axes completed but no drivetrain and no z axis.
Every now and then, I have to disarm. I try to avoid it, but sometimes you have to go to “gun-free” zones to get stuff done.
Like getting new license plates. Or meeting friends for dinner at a restaurant I’ve never been to and seeing the please rob my restaurant gunbuster sign.
Because, you know, it’s safer to leave it in a box with tempered glass sides than on my person.
Anyway, several years ago I bought a car safe thingy similar to this one from GunVault
For a while, I would transfer it from my jeep to my wife’s car when we would go on trips and stuff. Then, I just started leaving it in her car full time. So I bought another one, only this time it had a combination lock instead of a key lock.
In any event, they’re pretty cheap. They secure to the car via aircraft cable–I loop the cable around the front passenger seat bracket. I just found out that they’re also TSA approved for transporting firearms in checked baggage. That’s definitely an added bonus.
I highly recommend them.
The mask slipped. House Democrats actually complain that there are too many rapists and muggers getting killed.
How many “isolated incidents” do you need before you get to the “widespread institutional behavior” level? How many until you get to “standard operating procedure”?
Officer charged after video shows beating
There is a six minute local news report attached to that article. Your standard local newscast is 22 minutes of programming.
The long and short of it is a couple of officers beat the crap out of a senior citizen, put him in the hospital, and then charged him with assaulting two police officers.
Only problem is, there’s video. Now the officers are in trouble (for assault, not for false arrest or lying on a police report or any of that other boring procedural stuff that the rest of us would be crucified for) and the victim is clearly recognized as the victim.
But, you know, isolated incident.
Just like this other one from Florida.
“I can’t access the system” is NOT the same as “I can access the system, but it takes longer than I’d like.”
Huge difference there. HUGE.
