This is my first SBS. I bought it originally as a 18.5” Police trade in with the Surefire forend. I changed the stock and sourced a police trade in 14” barrel. Filed as a Form 1 Trust and took about 75 days from submission to approval.
On a side note, any recommendations for shops local to central Ohio for Cerakote. I have one in mind just seeing if anyone else has ideas.
Has anyone else seen this from the ATF director? Does this apply to trusts? I have several pending form 1’s filed with a trust and a VA RP. None were approved yet. With the injunction I still think we have time though. I guess we also don’t know for sure what it means until the law goes into effect. “Making” is different than “manufacturing” after all.
Accidentally fat fingered my serial number with an extra number it’s already been approved what should my next actions be so I may create my SBR legally?
Designed to be 3d printed. Takes 3/4 to 1/2 28 adapter. Inspired by Middleton made pillpopper 1.5 and the dead air mask. 1.10 inch diameter. Little over 5 and 1/8 inches tall.
30mm OD 25mm ID main tube with 2.5mm walls internally tapped to M27-1.5
The ID will need to be skimmed to 25.4mm for the tap and for the 1” freeze plug baffles and spacers.
6.5” long overall
Front cap is in 2 parts. 1st sits inside the tube to compress the baffles to the rear and center them against one another. Then the front cap threads over and flush with a shoulder.
Rear cap is similar except has a direct thread 1/2 28
Things I might change:
The blast chamber is small. I would probably just reduce the angle on the 1st baffle.
My front cap assembly may be changed to make tightening the inner threaded ring easier. Possible having male threads on this part also that the front cap threads to. Current intended on tightening with a custom pin spanner wrench
Planning on clipping the baffles with a jig.
Designed specifically to minimize machining on a lathe while keeping concentricity
Questions, comments, critiques?
If you doing the form 1 via eforms do you still have to attach a physical photo to the 5320.23 or is the photo you upload sufficient?
finally got the chance to test out a few of my form 1 cans today. this one is the most fun. this is a fresh build and im awaiting optics. can is 1.5in steel tube with freeze plugs. can length is 6.5in, 2.25 or 2.5in blast chamber, i beleive 6 or 7 baffles. sorry i dont remember lol. first 3 baffle holes are slightly larger to help with back pressure and all are stacked. the ar15 is a 12.5 with mid length gas. gonna get an adjustable gas block to tune it better and hopefully have alittle less gas to the face but overall i think this sounds pretty good for .556. gonna draw up and make some new ones next week. gonna try doing some flow through designs on the next batch
also the smoke you see coming off the can is the spray paint lol
I’ve got two form 1’s that were submitted 4/3/26. I’m an Ohio resident. Control numbers 20262517xxx. I’m sitting at 80 days. I finally emailed IPB and they said they have approved everything up to 4/1/26 and they won’t respond to emails for anything after that.
Bottom line it seems like any Form 1’s from anywhere besides VA have slowed to a crawl if not downright stopped. One of these is a correction that already got disapproved (disapproved for a model number others have gotten approvals for.)
I feel bad for our brothers/sisters in VA, but I’m frustrated to be right on the cusp of approval and seeing zero approvals outside of VA in the big tracker thread.