waiting on my ffl to be processed so I thought I'd ask..

A while back I went to an ffl that had a slick setup for 4473 filing. He had a laptop facing the customer and he had his own station. I filled out my info and then on his side he did the rest and printed out the 4473

Also I'm sure he did his A&D on that same setup.

I'm looking for a simple similar setup but more like using maybe one laptop and just having it turned around for customer to fill and then when done back to me. I got really shitty hand writing so this is the obvious choice. I saw ffl tools but wondering what's the cost for a part timer like me?

My main needs are.

Electronic filling, printing of the 4473
Electronic nics at same time would be nice but nit required.
And of course electronic bound book

Also last thing is I thought I came across something offered by the ATF to do 4473? Am I correct on that?

Thanks!

FFL Tools will handle everything you're looking to do. Great support as well.

I'm hoping I don't need the professional edition correct?

I would need the other 2 editions/options?

You will need the professional. It's a good deal @ $495. It was one of the first purchases we made when starting up.

e4473 is also available from the ATF website for free. It's not as feature rich as FFL Tools, but then again it's a free program provided by a government agency.

I know quite a few low to medium volume gun stores that use that as their primary means of 4473 preparation.

Does it run the nics check also? I'm wondering can I play around with it without FFL info ? That way I can test it out

Ok so what's the non pro version at I think $100 then?

It doesn't work that way. You will need to email Tim to discuss it, but it basically automates your BGCs for the most part as it auto populates the fields in eNICS, so no phone calls needed.

 

Sometimes you just have to pay to play. Printing out BB pages from Excel is basically free but a lot more time consuming in the long run...

In the past few months went from a paper book to several other electronic bound book programs at two locations.

I cannot speak highly enough about Tim from FFL Tools. He has answered his phone every single time we have called and always been polite and extremely willing to help... Even on weekends after hours.

Go FFL Tools or go home. At first I thought $500 was spendy but only a short time later we realized that $500 is a bargain for what he offers.

I downloaded FFL tools to try it out. Installed no problem. Then I tried to give it a whirl said I needed to input store info. I did. Still keeps giving me missing required info so couldn't give it a whirl.

But I can tell you when I emailed my problem he emailed back real quick and said to give him a call. So doing that tomo.

Yea I thought $500 was pricey as well.
But if it makes it easier on me to be more compliant and NOT have to handwrite then it just might be

Try EZ Arms Keeper It's been the cats meow for me. Multiple FFL's, e4473, no annual or monthly fee. $350 I run it on a cheap Thinkpad Yoga which has a touch screen that works great for signature capture if you decide to use that e4473 feature. Luke has been johnny-on-the-spot nights, weekends any time I had a question or needed support. Can't say enough good things about the software, it has saved me a lot of time and it's simple to use.