I feel the need to apologize
I apparently missed the mark with my above post…
I wrongly assumed flipper was still doing pre-order \ back-orders… which they are not, so you can’t do anything if they aren’t in stock,… that’s my bad…
why I derped harder than usual if you care.. RANT WARNING lol
beyond my usual stupidity… I can trace where my poor attitude about it came from…
regardless of your feels about gun stuff…this rant is mostly about bureaucracy and very little to do with guns…
anyways I have been in that industry for YEARS… and one of the most asinine things I have to deal… especially in regards to customers… is the ATF NFA forms…
… long story short (but probably not), its a permission slip for cooler stuff than normal… but its LITERALLY NOTHING but pointless bureaucracy, its the exact same background check a store does in 15 seconds… and I LITERALLY mean the exact same… same database and parameters… but you send it off in a paper form… and the ATF\FBI chucks it into some closet and fucks off for USUALLY about a year… often more… one of my forms took 14 months… btw it costs 200$ for this special treatment
so pretty much you fork over the money for the THING, and then pay the ATF\FBI to sit on their hands and do nothing, and wait a year plus before you actually get the thing you wanted to buy…
pretty shitty adventure, every time because of course you have to do it all over again everytime you want to buy something cool…
well there are ebbs and flows and gridlocks that happen ON-TOP of the typical shit…
and there’s a person born every minute who thinks they can “outsmart” the cold heartless bullshit, if they “SEND IT IN AT THE RIGHT TIME”, because once every blue moon the submission rate drops and stuff comes back in as little as 3-4 months,… so everyone gets this brilliant idea that they will WAIT till stuff is coming back 3-4 months later, and THEN they will submit it…
here’s where the problem starts… there is no prediction or timetable during the entire submission… you send it off, and it comes back when it comes back… and you can entirely fuck off until then
lets say you decide to call them the day before they send your paperwork back… they’re answer will be “pending” its pending from when the get it, till they send it back, nothing more nothing less…
so the only way to know, is to look at stuff that is coming back, how long it was gone for…
but that doesn’t tell the story of how many submissions happened since that form was submitted, the submission rate could have gone up by 10x
and what happens is every tom dick and harry that didn’t have the patience to wait, now hears that john smith got his paperwork back in 3 months, so they all assume that NOW is the time to strike…
…and the submission rate EXPLODES… and then it takes 15 months to process all the demand… ALL the while those who submitted are whining to me about it
equally if not more frustrating is the people who LITERALLY, wait YEARS for the “right time”… and you can’t get through to them… that if they have just sucked it up and sent in the papers day1 they would have gotten their paperwork back years ago… but they will still whine to ME about how long it takes…
so when I read about people waiting for some " right moment" to get something, I kinda get mildly triggered… awkward laughing after long rant