{"id":1298,"date":"2012-05-23T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:47:49","slug":"does-it-seem-like-nfa-transfers-are-taking-longer-than-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Does it seem like NFA transfers are taking longer than they used to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s not just that more people are buying NFA items.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>So if you submit your paperwork on June 30th as opposed to June 1st, you won&#8217;t get it 30 days later than someone who submitted on the 1st: it&#8217;s more like 42.<\/p>\n<p>And the trend is getting worse. In February, the increase was one day every three days. Even if the trend is steady <i>now<\/i>, that still means that paperwork submitted a year from now will take 146 days <b>longer<\/b> than something submitted today.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting on my stamp, but I expect it in the next week or so. I went pending in mid-November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just you. It&#8217;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&#8217;s not just that more people are buying NFA items. This may, or may not, be intentional. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}