Do govt agencies and armed forces have to wait 9 months for an NFA item?

[Midwest]

Do Government agencies and armed forces have to wait 9 months for an NFA item?

I have been reading the about the wait time for various NFA items, it seems that the wait has been nine months or longer. I understand that all NFA items have to be registered including those purchased by government agencies and armed forces (although I understand they are exempt from the $200 'tax').

But if the Army or CIA needed several thousand machine guns. Would they also have to wait 9 months like everyone else ? Or do they get quickly processed in days or weeks?

Thanks in advance

 

[AlexanderA]

Federal agencies, including the armed forces, don't register their NFA items with the ATF. State and local agencies do. Transfers are expedited.

 

[stoky]

 

[Ryanxia]

No, that which is illegal for the citizens is legal for the government (which is coincidentally an example of tyranny).

 

[ilbob]

government agencies typically don't just up and buy stuff either. there is an appropriation cycle that may well amount to years.

 

[CapnMac]

Lets say the East Virginia Atomic Energy Commission decides they need ten SAWs for their Security patrol. They gin up paperwork and requisitions and send them to FN-USA, who then crates up ten (and whatever spares and the like that are in the requisition) and ships them away. No Form 1.

 

[Telekinesis]

Lets say the East Virginia Atomic Energy Commission decides they need ten SAWs for their Security patrol. They gin up paperwork and requisitions and send them to FN-USA, who then crates up ten (and whatever spares and the like that are in the requisition) and ships them away. No Form 1.

Nope. The Form 1 is for the private (tax paid/non SOT) manufacture of a NFA weapon and is the wrong form for that type of transaction.

FN would make the machine guns on a Form 2 (notice of manufacture) and then they would be transferred on a Form 5 to the department tax free. The Form 2 being a notice has no time delay and Form 5s are given priority and don't have the same type of backlog that form 1 and 4s have.

That is assuming that the East Virginia Atomic Energy Commission isn't somehow exempted as the fed agencies are.

 

[CapnMac]

That is assuming that the East Virginia Atomic Energy Commission isn't somehow exempted as the fed agencies are.

Exactly.
I was creating a straw man "state" agency for purpose of illustration. So, yes, Form 2 with a Form 5. No use of a Form 1.