I don’t know where you got the 30 days from, but you can email them in now. My last bunch was back in under two weeks, during COVID. You can list all your required NFA and ATF will approve them with a window of up to a year, so you only have to submit them once a year. Yes, it’s an infringement and a pain, bit not nearly so much as people would have you think. I submit the whole bunch of them for everywhere I might take them once a year.
Because the average approval time for an ATF 5320.20 is 1 month or less for about 33% of forms submitted, ~2 months for ~37%, ~3 months for ~9% and ~4 months or more for ~22% of them.
https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/pa...proval-tracker
And most people won't do it annually for every one of their NFA items (and only three per Form 20, of course).
I modified a 5320.20 to have enough lines for all my NFA, ATF has no problem with it. Of course you know that the form itself isn’t necessary, a polite letter will do. I have never had a mailed in form take longer than 4 weeks, and emailed forms are a good bit faster.
As I said, it’s an infringement and a pain, but it’s not the worst of my firearms related inconveniences.
Trustee
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