Suppressor Transfers
The full process end to end — what happens when, which form does what, and what you actually have to do.
How transfers work →NFA Fingerprinting
EFT files or FD-258 cards for Form 4 and Form 1 filings, individual or trust, all responsible persons in one appointment.
NFA fingerprinting →Transfer Pricing
$85 for incoming NFA items, $0 on anything bought through HTX Guns. The ATF tax stamp on a suppressor is now $0.
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Official partner
Your Form 4 is filed digitally — start to finish.
We are partnered with 10Scan, the NFA platform that takes the ink cards, the printing and the posting out of the process entirely. There is no paperwork for you to fill in by hand and nothing goes to Washington in an envelope: your application is transmitted to the ATF eForms system electronically before you leave the shop.
- Scan your driver’s licence. Your details import straight off the barcode — nothing to hand-write, nothing for us to mistype onto a federal form.
- Photo taken on the spot. At the station, or scan a QR code and take it on your own phone.
- Fingerprints in about thirty seconds. Three flat captures — left hand, right hand, both thumbs — on an FBI-certified live scanner. No ink, no rolled cards, nothing to smudge.
- ATF questions, validated as you answer them. Each field is checked against ATF specification in real time, so an error is caught at the counter instead of coming back as a rejection weeks later.
- Your eForms account, set up here. If you do not already have one, you create it during the same session — no separate sign-up to go home and wrestle with.
- We review, certify and submit. We check the capture, add the CLEO details, attach your EFT fingerprint file and photo, and file the Form 4 with the ATF electronically.
Sale to submitted eForm usually runs about ten minutes at the counter. Filing as a trust? The trust can be generated in the same session. The prints and photo do have to be taken in person — that part is federal law, not software — but everything after them is digital.
Individual or trust?
There's no universally right answer, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
An individual registration is the simplest path. One person, one set of prints, one photo. That person is the only one who may legally possess the item.
A trust can name more than one person able to possess the item — useful if you want a spouse or family member to have lawful access, or you're thinking about what happens to the item later. The trade-off: every responsible person has their own fingerprint and photo obligation, which means more paperwork and more people at the appointment.
We can print everyone in one visit at $25 per additional person. For the trust document itself, talk to an attorney.
The forms, briefly
- Form 4 (ATF 5320.4) — transfer and register an NFA firearm to you. This is the one for buying a suppressor.
- Form 3 (ATF 5320.3) — dealer-to-dealer transfer. This is how the item gets to us; it doesn't involve you.
- Form 1 (ATF 5320.1) — making an NFA firearm rather than buying one.
About the wait
The honest answer is that nobody can promise you a date. Electronic filing is generally faster than paper. Once your application is with ATF, the timeline is entirely theirs — any dealer who guarantees a turnaround is guessing.
NFA at a glance
- Our licence
- 07 FFL / Class 2 SOT
- Incoming NFA transfer
- $85
- Bought from HTX Guns
- $0
- Fingerprints
- $50
- ATF tax stamp
- $0 on suppressors