The ATF eForm 4 appears to be coming as promised. The ATF eForms website is down for maintenance as of Friday December 17th. You can view the outage message by simply going to theATF's eForm website. There was some speculation that the ATF eForm 4 was not going to happen and was hyped up. It appears as of now that the ATF is coming through with their promises. The ATF eForms website should be down until Tuesday, when the site is set to come back online. See below outage image.
View Proposed Rule Here.
SUMMARY:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) proposes amending regulatory requirements to submit fingerprints and photographs with firearms ap...
ATF Form
Processing Time Paper Application
Processing Time eForms
ATF Form 1
33 Days
62 Days
ATF Form 3
8 Days
1 Days
ATF Form 4
63 Days
8 Days
ATF Form 4 Trust
25 Days
25 Days
AT...
The ATF has been adding an "Approved with Conditions - See Conditions on the Last Page of PDF" that relates specifically to the engraving the firearm as a maker on ATF Form 1/eForm 1 applications. ...