I had a few guns I didn't care if they got processed or not so I did them today spread out over the day. I was stunned that eforms was running fine all day through 4pm with excellent performance. It has now reached the breaking point and melted down. I wonder what the ATF will do for those? You can't submit them and you can't save them at least at the moment.

I don’t see the ATF doing anything for those who waited until the last few hours to get it done. People had 120 days (actually more, since they opened up the eForm soon after the initial announcement in mid January, which was a couple of weeks before the official Jan 31 date when it got published). People had plenty of time to get their applications in, and the site being overwhelmed within the last few hours is a surprise to absolutely no one.

I don't need any special help, but I think as a principle if you can't keep your website up and running and that's how you said you have to do something and you give a specific deadline you have an obligation to help people who can't due to your actions, that's not just an ATF idea. That said my try at 6pm eventually logged me off and then at 7:20 I was able to log back in and finish it successfully. So I expect they rebooted the whole system. But I have been stunned how good eforms has been today. It wasn't this good in Jan.

I just checked and I was able to log in and check my "dashboard" and it seemed only marginally slower than any other day. Hopefully they did reboot it.

and now we know why things didn't melt down. I saw a report today that the amnesty registrations totaled 240K out of the likely multi millions.

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Originally posted by hrcjon:
and now we know why things didn't melt down. I saw a report today that the amnesty registrations totaled 240K out of the likely multi millions.

2000 a day, although they obviously weren’t uniform. I’ll bet many got in early, but I’ll also bet most were in the last month or so as it became clearer that the courts weren’t going to kill it immediately.

I’m not buying that there were anything like multi millions of braced pistols (or millions of bump stocks) out there. Even if a few million were originally sold, a lot of people likely started with the brace and filed for SBRs when eForm 1 came out, with average times of less than a month. I had half a dozen braced pistols and SBR’d them years ago, and I’m sure that I’m not alone doing that. I’m betting there were a lot less than a million remaining braced pistols still out there as of Jan 31.

you certainly can't see an uptick in F1's of the magnitude being envisioned by the idea that many have already done it. and even the 240K reported is a near doubling of volume that was previously reported so the ATF coping with that seems miraculous given how often we have issue with eforms.