The title says it all.
My question is what now? I’m about 4 months in. I’m upset at myself for not having noticed before.
If and when approved, can I write in to have a permanent change as you can with SBRs?
Can’t find any info related to this matter anywhere and wondering if anyone else had the same happen to them.
This is so lame.
It may get approved as is, or NFA branch may kick it back to the dealer for the correction, which usually then gets approved within a couple of weeks. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
Incorrect by an inch or a foot?
We had a machine gun that was approved for transfer to us with the barrel length and overall length switched. It was more than a foot difference.
I just got off the phone with my dealer. Both SilencerShop and Griffin Armament list as 6.6 inches. Form 3 has 7.6 inches and this is apparently where my dealer got the length from.
Paper or eForm?
If paper, don’t worry about it. If it gets kicked back it can be fixed and only add ~2 weeks based on recent reports.
If it’s an eForm…cross your fingers and hope for the best!!
If it matches the F3, it will not be kicked back.
Thanks, dealer says the same. False alarm. Sheesh that’s twice in two days.
It should not get kicked back. But, if it did, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Um yeah. This is wrong. I’ve actually had ATF ask me to verify inconsistencies in this issue. This was the first time I literally yelled at the NFA branch…
Um no.
If the F4 matches the F3, there is no inconsistency. If they called a FFL everytime a F4 matched an F3 to verify, nothing would get done.
Dude, I literally had a F3 approved to me with what the manufacturer if that said weapon had on their F2. My customers F4 was kicked back due to “information variances”. I called talked with the examiner and told her I have an approved F3 (by you guys AT ATF no less) and I copied that info word for word exactly as it appeared on my approved F3. I asked her why they kicked it back when all MY info on THEIR forms was approved. Her honest answer was “I don’t know, our system shows different than is on your (the form they approved ) F3.” She was was very nice and asked me to confirm the info with the firearm in front of me. ATF then used MY corrected info to update their data base on this firearm. My customers F4 was then expedited and we got it approved that week. DONT tell me “um, no”!!!
The two week correction process is negligible compared to the current wait - if anything it can be that good old 2-week indicator that things are about to be wrapped up.
Is it confusion of OAL vs Added length?
Your sample size of one form incorrectly kicked back is statistically meaningless. They are human, they make mistakes. By your own admission there was nothing wrong. So kicking it back was an error, not normal procedure. If you have been a FFL for any length of time, you know this.