Yeah I can do eforms also but silencer shop is the only one set up to do the digital submission of the finger prints. Well I guess I could spend 10k on a set up to do digital finger prints also but that seems a bit pricey.Lots of other companies are doing the eForms, so it's not just SS.
I can sort of see the vendors point though. Fingerprints are the 'gold standard' of identification. Sending a digital version to a government agency is a whole different thing than sending them to some random person. The vendor has no way of knowing that those are actually your prints.