ATF Hires Wave of New Employees for NFA Branch, Wait Times Expected to Decrease

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October 29, 2013

Wait times for NFA paperwork are getting ridiculous. When I applied for my first tax stamp, the wait time from submission to reciept was almost exactly 7 months. A year later, the wait time was the same for my SBR. But now, reports are coming in that the forms submitted today will be approved in approximately 15 months from the date of receipt. In short, there’s nothing short about it. And thanks to the way the NFA branch was funded, there were no new hires coming on board at the time. A while back we posted an update about some new hirings at the NFA branch that was giving us some hope that there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and tonight we have more good news. . .




We had initially reported that eight new examiners were being hired (nine total, minus one to replace Sarah Jones), but it looks like that number has increased to 15. There are also reportedly eight specialists coming on board, and two section chiefs.


There’s some mixed results of this hiring. The new examiners will definitely add more bandwidth to the system and allow them to process a higher volume of the 60,000+ applications that are piled up, but they will be inexperienced and therefore it will take some time for them to be trained and “ramp up” to meet the demand.


At the end of the day, what this means is that the ATF is seeing the increase in NFA applications and assigning headcount to address the backlog, but it will still be many months before they even make a dent in the waiting period. The ATF is currently fighting a losing battle, as more and more people send in their paperwork for NFA items and the same tired set of examiners are expected to do more and more work. With the new wave of examiners hopefully the tide will turn and they’ll start to make progress, but it will still be some time before they make progress. I’d expect that applications submitted today will still take a long time, but starting sometime in Q2 of next year we should see progress.
 

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NFA Branch personnel assigned to Martinsburg include:

Branch Chief
Edward Saavedra

Specialists
Andrew Ashton
Jon Coleman
Janice Fields
Rob Howard
Sara Jones
Kenneth Mason
Scott Robertson
Amy Stely (SOT specialist)

Section Chief (Examiner Supervisors)
Ted Clutter
Kim Ramsburg

Examiners
Jason Bowers
Shawn Cook
Nicole Dudash
Christina Farris
Elizabeth Feltner
Jason Frushour
Albert Lamberger
Eric Leber
Joyce Leonard
Daniel Parasky
Dana Pickles
Shannon Siviero
Sandra Snook
Terry Whittington
Diane Wood

Secretary
Vacant

Customer Service contractors (answer the main NFA number)
Mary Garrott
Linda Guy
Cassandra North
Damon Wright
 

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I don't fully understand what they "examine." On my Form 4 they caught me for an extra "the" on my paperwork. Other than correct grammar and a background check why does the process take so long?
 

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There is absolutely no reason the process should take as long as it does. I vote we take supressors off the class III list seeing as how they are not a firearm. That is a common sense solution that would free up a lot of their time. But good luck with that.
 

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I have an idea. find something retardedly inexpensive that qualifies as an NFA item requiring registration (like <$10) and start a grassroots movement of people putting in applications. Flood the system til it breaks. $210 isn't that bad a deal to make a statement.

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I'm really confused about this issue... isn't this one of the few areas of .gov that could quite easily MAKE money??? I mean, $200 per stamp... surely these employees aren't THAT highly paid??? Stamping a half-dozen apps per day (each) surely would MORE THAN pay for all the salary, benefits and support requirements for every one of those people???

$1,200 (6 approved apps per day) x 5 days per week x 46 weeks per year (allowing for lots of time off) =

$276,000 in revenue generated per year PER employee!

Yet one more example of how the .gov does a terrible terrible job, something the private industry could and would do much much better. Any private industry in their right mind that could virtually GUARANTEE a return on their investment like that... OMG. I mean, you could pay these people 50k per year with another 30k in benefits and STILL have a NET PROFIT of $2.50 for every dollar you spend!

WTH??? How hard is it to run those numbers??? If not for the waiting list, I'd already have a number of NFA items... but jeez.... I just can't justify that kind of money being tied up and unusable for a year-plus.

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Ya, I really don't think profits are what they are after. Just control. It sucks that they act like you are criminally inclined if you want suppressors and SBRs. They are like "Sure sicko, I'll let you have these prohibited items but I'm keeping a close eye on you." NFA is dumb.
 

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