You buy the suppressor
From HTX Guns, or from any dealer or online retailer. If you buy elsewhere, tell them the receiving dealer is American Patriot Outdoors LLC in Houston.
It transfers to us
The selling dealer files a dealer-to-dealer transfer and ships the item to our licensed premises, where it's logged. This step doesn't involve you and usually moves quickly.ATF Form 3 · 5320.3
You come in and we file
We prepare and submit your transfer application electronically. Since 1 January 2026 the transfer tax on a suppressor is $0 — there is no stamp to pay for.ATF Form 4 · 5320.4 · eForms
Fingerprints and photo
Done here, same visit, on our 10Scan station — live-scan capture producing the EFT file your eForm needs, and your photo taken at the counter. About thirty seconds of actual fingerprinting.EFT · FD-258
ATF reviews it
Now you wait. The item stays in our safe. Timelines vary and are outside any dealer's control — anyone promising you a date is guessing.
Approved — come get it
Your stamp is approved. You come in, complete the final paperwork, and take it home.
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.
What it costs
Three separate numbers, and it's worth keeping them straight because only one of them is ours:
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| NFA transfer fee — incomingOur fee for receiving, processing and holding the item. Per item. | $85 |
| NFA bought from HTX GunsNo transfer fee if you buy the suppressor through us. | $0 |
| Fingerprinting$25 for each additional responsible person on a trust. | $50 |
| ATF tax stamp$0 on suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and AOWs since 1 Jan 2026. Machine guns and destructive devices are still $200. | $0 |
What to bring
- Government photo ID for everyone being fingerprinted.
- Trust documents if you're filing as a trust — and bring every responsible person with you.
- Your purchase paperwork if you bought the item elsewhere.
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Suppressor transfer
- Transfer (incoming)
- $85
- Bought from HTX Guns
- $0
- Fingerprinting
- $50
- ATF stamp
- $0 on suppressors
- Visits needed
- 2