You can tell which ones are actual doing their jobs, and which ones are fucking-off most of the day…But are tenured and basically un-fireable at this point. Welcome to bureaucracy and the government labor force.
It’s not that simple. If you watch the NFA subreddit, you will see two examiners (Rachel Ballard & Jessica Mason) who consistently bring the most recent submission date approvals forward, so that sounds like it supports your position that they’re ”actually doing their jobs,” better than the rest. However, digging deeper, a couple of weeks ago while most approvals were coming in from late May submissions, out of no where, Mason and Ballard push the date range forward with a couple mid-June approvals and then guess what happens
in the same day? Those exact two examiners move backwards to early June or late May dates that they approve - it’s all over the place, for even those two examiners! Ballard was the examiner that approved “20 can man” last week and remember the shortest approval for those 20 cans was 12 days. Watch and see now those two are back in the average with the rest of the examiners.
There is some wacky stuff going on before it gets to the examiners, if we could actually see the process of what is happening it would really help. Clearly, clearly they are not processed in the order received.
Look at what I attached below from the Reddit user “tickletheclown” same guy from yesterday that posted above from Kansas, just had two more approved today from submission dates of 7/12 and 11/3/22, the latter approved in 133 days. The examiner’s name is illegible on all these Kansas approvals.
20 Can Man I really believe there was some manual push to approve him all at once - that just hasn’t happened before. All we can do is guess. Did a US Senator/Representative from Kansas get sick and tired of having his staff being tasked to write letters to the ATF and did the actual Senator call the ATF directly talk to someone in senior management and grill them to get his constituents approved or he was going to call for hearings? Or is it as simple as how they coded the eform system was done so poorly that it isn’t programmed to process in sequence, in order they were received and so the examiners are given submissions that reflect that cluster fuckery programming? And the speculations could go on and on. It does seem clear that Ballard and Mason do pull the date range forward consistently and that would seem to indicate some sort of purposeful planning.
Make sure and look at the comments in the attachments about the upcoming House hearing requiring the ATF to appear and the comments asking how these Kansas guys are getting approved way ahead of the average.