https://old.reddit.com/r/WAGun...now_paperwork_later/

Reckon I'm gonna have to take advantage of this.

A lot of dealers are doing this.

I got the invoice yesterday for a suppressor I’ve been talking to the manufacturer about for a few months now, and I’m trying to decide if the $200 to get it over with now makes sense. The demand on the ATF processing branch come January 1st is going to be potentially at unheard-of levels. I don’t want to wait five months to find out my wait is another five or ten months. Wait times right now are as short as twenty minutes in some cases, trending around a few days to a week. I can handle a longer wait for a stack of Form 1’s, but a can? I’m leaning strongly towards the “get it over with” option.

I'm not patient enough for that, but I like the service they're offering. I have a can at my dealer right now and will probably be adding a Surefire Rc2 mini before the market goes apeshit, the manufacturers are dry, and the ATF is inundated.

This seems like a very bad idea. IMO.

Paid for my can last night, it was at my dealer this afternoon, they submitted my Form 4 an hour later. I’m not going to wait for the Fuddgates to open January 1st, fuck that.


… because that’s when I’m going to file all the Form 1’s for the spare lowers I haven’t built up yet.

My LGS is taking payment for silencers, but holding them for folks who want to wait until the new year to file. They say that few folks are choosing to do it though, with most opting to continue purchasing as though nothing's changed.

I guess I understand wanting to lock-in your silencer(s) to get ahead of the inevitable inventory depletion. But it seems likely the processing will be a mess, come the new year, with the surge of submissions. We may see wait times go back up.

IMO, the wait was always the biggest gripe. If the ATF had said that an elimination of the tax would result in a return to year-long wait times, or they could maintain the tax but guarantee same-day approvals moving forward, folks would opt for the tax. The wait has always been the crummier aspect.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Paid for my can last night, it was at my dealer this afternoon, they submitted my Form 4 an hour later. I’m not going to wait for the Fuddgates to open January 1st, fuck that.
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Neither am I. I’m buying a cobalt Scrambler as soon as I get my ducks in a row with them for the discount.

Can is sitting on my desk as I type this. The mount for it should arrive in the mail Tuesday. That's nuts. Five days for me, who always gets delayed, is looking like 12-18hrs for everyone else. My advice? If you want a can, go fucking buy it and file the paperwork like right now, because between the GunTubers and their clickbait bullshit with the $4,700 tax nonsense and everyone and their grandma's cousin's dog going suppressor shopping on New Year's and every day until the next presidential election, well... if you go that route, I hope you've got all the patience I don't have because you're gonna need it. Like the man said, "It's quiet now. Go get your stuff."

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Originally posted by jljones:
Neither am I. I’m buying a cobalt Scrambler as soon as I get my ducks in a row with them for the discount.

Yeah, tomorrow, I'm listing everything in the safe I haven't shot in the last six months and I'm starting at least two more cans ASAP. A Stealth Additive Ekron in 5.56 and their .22 can as well. I'm gonna be a low backpressure cool kid, hell with it. Sold. If I can scrape together enough and can track one down, I want to find an integrally suppressed 10/22 barrel as well and get one of those going.