I have a friend that thought the same thing…
That won’t stop people from beating down your doors if they are impatient, and you still have to babysit their can until the approval. It’s even worse if they drag their feet on filing their tax stamp. He’s had a few that have sat for years and the response is always “oh yeah I was about to file my stamp!”. That’s a lot of effort for a few bucks off the top of retail.
Spot on. It's not worth it. Enormous waste of time and space.
It's come down a little! They told me $8k a while back.
I filled out my form 1 Friday for my build using that kick ass upper I got from you. I went down and did my prints on their scanner, almost identical to the SS kiosk process. I had the link to download my file before I left the parking lot. I did get the same cover sheet as before but I just ignored it. Here is hoping for another sub 10 day turn around.I just got my EFT file done by PrintScan through National Guntrusts. Easy process and if you are too far from a UPS Store or location and already have a finger print card you can mail it in (they can provide pre-paid label at extra cost) and the file is emailed or available for download. It took a few days to get mine since I mailed in a card. I did have a problem retrieving the download due to having Jr as part of my full legal name. Both National GunTrusts and PrintScan were very responsive and took care of the issue quickly. Just a couple of emails and some ID verification so customer service was outstanding.
Midwest Silencers will also send you EFT files.
As for viewing the file, it's a pain in the ass since you need specific software for that. You can open it with a text editor and see some of the information in plain text at the top of the file.
I haven't gotten to it yet but you can compile the NIST software for viewing them. Probably work on that this weekend as well. I'll be doing this on a Mac so I'll write it up if there are any hiccups in the compile process. Looks pretty straight forward though.
NIGOS - NIST Biometric Open Source Server
BiomAPP - Match-on-Card and PIV Application Softwarewww.nist.gov
Cognaxon offers a free viewer for Windows (32 bit) for the EFT file format as well. If you need to change something you have to buy a license from them.
I'm also submitting a couple of eforms 1 over the weekend. Other forums have reported no issues using the EFT file. I did read that BATFE still says to mail in cards during the process but that can be ignored. I'll post on how long it took and any problems as well.
I just paid national Gun trust $65 and have an EFT file I can use repeatedly. I don’t have mail my **** out and extend wait periods. It’s easy attach the damn file and move on. Buy once cry once. But it’s up to you.
I got my .EFT file from PrintScan through NationalGunTrusts. They had a sale for $60. I already used mine to do a E-Form 1 submission and it was accepted. We will see how fast it takes to get the stamp for this one though.
