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  • clayshooter99

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    So I want to travel with an SBR. My understanding is a form 20. Do you guys mail, fax or email it....and how does it come back to you if faxed or emailed ? Anyone have a recent time frame experience? I have read that people who submit the form 20.... and the ATF will possibly accept the date for a "year" in the event you might visit the same place you are going several times in a year...can anyone confirm this?
     

    laf

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    I filled my form out electronically, fillable PDF, printed it out, signed it in ink, then faxed to the ATF at the number on the form. I got a paper copy of that same form back with their signature on the bottom. It took about 2.5 weeks from faxing it to getting the paper copy back. This was about a month ago.
    Alan
     

    T.Lex

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    Suppressors do not technically, but I fill one out for mine, just in case. I fill one out for the SBR anyway, so it isn't like there's any more work to it.

    And yes, it doesn't matter how close the "home address" is to a different state, if you want to cross the border, you need to fill it out.

    I actually email mine in, and this year, the turnaround time was very quick. Like, a couple of weeks. The year before, it was a couple months. They return signed hard copies by mail.
     

    Fargo

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    Suppressors do not technically, but I fill one out for mine, just in case. I fill one out for the SBR anyway, so it isn't like there's any more work to it.

    And yes, it doesn't matter how close the "home address" is to a different state, if you want to cross the border, you need to fill it out.

    I actually email mine in, and this year, the turnaround time was very quick. Like, a couple of weeks. The year before, it was a couple months. They return signed hard copies by mail.
    Good to know, I didn't know there was a distinction for cans. Thanks.
     

    T.Lex

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    Good to know, I didn't know there was a distinction for cans. Thanks.

    Frankly, I think it is was a drafting error.

    Under 922(a)(4) you need the permission slip to travel with a destructive device, machine gun, SBS or SBR. The Form 20 instructions contain that same list.

    Under 921(a)(3), a "silencer" is contained within the definition of "firearm," which itself is more than a little counterintuitive. But the Form 20 language (both statutory and on the form) is more specific.
     

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