Countdown Timer Until Free Tax Stamps for Suppressors and SBR's
President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4th, 2025. SEC. 70436. REDUCTION OF TRANSFER AND MANUFACTURING TAXES FOR CERTAIN DEVICES of the OBBB has an efffective date of 90 days after the end of this quarter. That puts the law going into effect on January 1, 2026, shown below. However, there are no details on when the ATF Forms will be revised and the timeline for January 1, 2026. We will keep updating this page when updates are available.
Last Updated December 10th, 2025
January 1, 2026 Countdown Timer
CURRENT UPDATES
DECEMBER 26TH, 2025
- Official Release - ATF eForm's Site is "still working" meaning, you can still use the ATF eForm's site to view approvals, update your profile, etc. But ATF eForm submissions are halted until January 1, 2026 while the ATF updates the ATF eForm system for the $0 tax stamps.
DECEMBER 10TH, 2025
- ATF eForms Site will be OFFLINE starting at midnight December 26th - If you need to submit any applications or use the ATF 5320.20, ATF eForm 3, etc. you will have until December 25th to do so. The ATF eForm's site will under maintance until the site comes back live on January 1st, 2026.
DECEMBER 6TH, 2025
- Free Tax Stamps - Shortening Your Gun Trust Name for Form 1 Engravings - This helps because you can transfer your firearms for free to your new gun trust that has a shorter name. However, the previously engraved firearms won't need to be updated. But future applications, can use the shortened name.
NOVEMBER 13TH, 2025
- ATF Releases eForm Industry Testing Site - The site is intended to allow members of the NFA industry to test their systems in anticipation of eForms changes necessitated by the implementation of system changes to the National Firearms Act effective January 1, 2026.
- Upon testing, it was revealed that the ATF will be adding Individual to Indivual ATF eForm 4's.
OCTOBER 30TH, 2025
OCTOBER 1ST, 2025
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ATF Releases ATF eForm 5320.20 - Could this be indicator that the ATF is trying to reduce unnecessary paperwork for examiners before the flood of tax free transfers?
SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2025
SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2025
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2025
AUGUST 28TH, 2025
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SilencerCo's $200 Big Beautiful Credit - EXTENDED
- Buy any SilencerCo suppressor, from anywhere, by October 31st, 2025
- Register by November 10th, 2025 with your receipt + submitted Form 4
- Your $200 credit will be valid until November 15th, 2025
- Unlimited submissions—because one suppressor is never enough
JULY 31ST, 2025
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SilencerCo's $200 Big Beautiful Credit. SilencerCo is offering $200 in store credit per suppressor purchased between July 4 – August 31, 2025. Multiple purchases qualify for multiple credits (e.g., 2 suppressors = $400 credit).
To receive the credit, customers must apply by September 15, 2025. The credit must be used before it expires on November 15, 2025. **SEE BELOW EXTENDED**
JULY 31ST, 2025
- Guam Makes History by Legalizing Firearm Suppressors. Guam became the first U.S. Territory to legalize suppressors, also know as silencers. This decision came by overriding Governor Lou Leon Guerrero's veto on July 31, 2025, when the legislature passed the Hearing Protection Act of 2025 - Bill No. 27-38.
JULY 22TH, 2025
- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE S4543 - Senator Murphy submits a proposed amendment to bill H.R. 3944 to effectively raise the tax for making or trasnferring an NFA firearm to be $4,709, instead of the $200 current tax stamp cost. According to Senate Vote History on H.R. 3944, on August 1st, 2-25, the overall bill H.R. 3944 passed with a vote of 87-9. But the S.Amdt.2973 of concern were submitted but not sent to the floor to vote or debate on. They were tabled. That means that S.Amdt.2973 apparently will not be voted on or submitted in their current form. More information can be found here.
JULY 20TH, 2025
- President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4th, 2025.
- SEC. 70436. REDUCTION OF TRANSFER AND MANUFACTURING TAXES FOR CERTAIN DEVICES - Effective Date - January 1, 2025.
APRIL 24TH, 2025
- ATF Releases 2024 Fact Sheet - Facts and Figures for Fiscal Year 2024 - Total NFA Making and Transfer Tax Collected in 2024 - $145,072,242.
- The ATF will be loosing millions of dollars of funding if the transfer and making of an NFA firearm excise tax goes to $0, at the same time increasing applications. How will that effect tax stamp approval times?
ATF BEGINS OPEN EFORM TESTING PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 2026
NO KNOWN TIMELINES FOR THE BELOW ITEMS - CHANGES TO THE ATF FORMS WILL BE COMING
- ATF Form 1, ATF Form 4, ATF Form 4 and ATF Form 5 Revisions - Possible ATF 5320.20 and ATF 5320.23 Revisions.
- ATF eFORM website updates to reflect the new costs for making and transferring NFA firearms.
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