Some crazy news today. A friend of mine, like so many others, jumped into the suppressor game for the first time with the rollout of eforms. I wrote down his submission dates as he simply doesn’t keep track or watch as he is really busy, nor does he ever check, his view is when they get approved is when they get approved. His first can was approved in February after 276 days.
This morning he sees he has multiple emails from ATF and he thinks it is just an error that they sent the same email numerous times for a single approval. Remember you have to open the pdf from the approval email to see what actually was approved and he only opened the first pdf. Also, this was only his second approval so this is still new to him.
Then he got the call from the dealer soon after they opened this AM that he could “come down and pickup his suppressors,” and he said to the dealer, “More than one was approved?” He replied, “yes they were ALL approved, didn’t you get the emails?” He said, “Yes, I just saw numerous emails and thought they were redundant emails for the same suppressor.”
He received approvals today for NINE suppressors! The submission dates were: two on 8/24; one on 8/25; four on 11/2 and two on 11/23 so this is a true batch approval. Longest approval 224 days to the shortest of 133 days.
All were approved by the same examiner first approval time stamp was 6:14 AM to the ninth stamp approval email at 6:30 AM EST. That’s 1 minute 46 seconds average between each of the nine approval emails. No, he is not MIL with PCS orders, nor is his dealer closing or changing the business name. All his submissions were for a two person traditional trust from SS, not the single shot version.
He’s a good guy and I’m happy for him and he is stoked to go get them.