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The questions people ask before they call.

Every other page here explains what we'd do to your firearm and what it costs. These don't sell anything — they answer the question you had before you knew which service you needed.

Why you won't find a wait time on these pages

The most-searched question in this whole subject is how long an ATF stamp takes, and it is the one number we refuse to print. Processing times have swung by more than an order of magnitude inside a single year, more than once. A page confidently quoting last year's figure is worse than a page quoting none — you'd plan around it, and it would be wrong by months.

So these guides explain the mechanism: what determines your wait, which parts of it you control, and where the live number actually lives. That answer stays true. If you want to know where your own filing sits, call the shop — we track what we file.

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