COE + FFL03

[Capybara]

Don't forget to log in to your CFARs account at least monthly as it has a habit of forgetting and or resetting your password if you don't. If you lose your password or it changes on you, it can be months to try to get even an automated response, much less communicate with a human with BOF. No access to your CFARs account, no renewal on time and then you go back down the expensive 40 day rabbit hole of a new COE. Also, I learned that if you held a COE at least within the past decade, you already have a CFARs account and ID. And they won't tell you what it is. My last one expired before CFARs existed so I started a new account. BOF let me know that I already had an account, even though I never started one but they somehow transferred my info from my old COE that I did through the mail and they would not let me start a new CFARs account. After days of detective work, I finally figured out my old COE account number, which was all under my old address so I had to "convert" my old mail-in COE account in CFARs, cancel the "new" account, it was a nightmare and took weeks.

So the take away is, if you have ever held a COE, even many years ago, and haven't renewed for years, you already have an account on CFARs, you just never knew it, unless you started it after CFARs existed. Dealing with them to try to get all of this ironed out was a multi-week nightmare.

[SilveradoColt21]

Don't forget to log in to your CFARs account at least monthly as it has a habit of forgetting and or resetting your password if you don't. If you lose your password or it changes on you, it can be months to try to get even an automated response, much less communicate with a human with BOF. No access to your CFARs account, no renewal on time and then you go back down the expensive 40 day rabbit hole of a new COE. Also, I learned that if you held a COE at least within the past decade, you already have a CFARs account and ID. And they won't tell you what it is. My last one expired before CFARs existed so I started a new account. BOF let me know that I already had an account, even though I never started one but they somehow transferred my info from my old COE that I did through the mail and they would not let me start a new CFARs account. After days of detective work, I finally figured out my old COE account number, which was all under my old address so I had to "convert" my old mail-in COE account in CFARs, cancel the "new" account, it was a nightmare and took weeks.

So the take away is, if you have ever held a COE, even many years ago, and haven't renewed for years, you already have an account on CFARs, you just never knew it, unless you started it after CFARs existed. Dealing with them to try to get all of this ironed out was a multi-week nightmare.

Good thing I log in every day to check my COE progress however I am sure that will change when I successfully get it.

[Capybara]

Good thing I log in every day to check my COE progress however I am sure that will change when I successfully get it.

Put a reminder on your calendar to log in to CFARs at least once a month or bad, inconvenient and frustrating things will happen when your renewal time comes up. It's stupid and ridiculous that we have to do that but remember, the CADOJ and BOF have a mandate to make owning guns legally as excruciatingly painful and humiliating as possible to weed out the casual gun owner from the process.

Only us hardcore and stubborn gun owners will counter their gotchas and traps with doing things like logging in monthly, even though we shouldn't have to. When I was going through this early this year, my emails to them didn't even get an auto response until 2-4 months later and it was a just a bot. Basically, you have to go through the whole thing by yourself and a little help from Calguns. The BOF isn't going to lift a finger to even communicate with you.

[-hanko]

Can someone plz tell ne what the purpose of getting coe and ffl 03?

Read the post just before yours.

[Regla]

I got an email from CFARS stating that my application is incomplete and to send the reason why I want a COE and to send my ffl03. Sent the requested reason the next day and I still havnt received any update.

[Regla]

Finally got my FFL03 and COE. Once i got my FFL03, I sent emailed my license number to cfars and got it the same day

[3S16]

Thank You for the tip on logging into CFARS monthly Capybara. I just went through the hassle of having to reset my password. I'm a new COE/FFL03 recipient. I thought my password was permanent. I had no idea my password was a "use it or lose it" proposition.
Consider my calendar reminded!

[Capybara]

Thank You for the tip on logging into CFARS monthly Capybara. I just went through the hassle of having to reset my password. I'm a new COE/FFL03 recipient. I thought my password was permanent. I had no idea my password was a "use it or lose it" proposition.
Consider my calendar reminded!

Hoops we have to jump through or we are punished.

[sfhondapilot]

Put a reminder on your calendar to log in to CFARs at least once a month or bad, inconvenient and frustrating things will happen when your renewal time comes up.

In the CFARS user manual, section 3.7 (page 14 of 59) it states that passwords for CFARS accounts are set to expire every 90 days.

[Capybara]

In the CFARS user manual, section 3.7 (page 14 of 59) it states that passwords for CFARS accounts are set to expire every 90 days.

I even read that whole monstrosity but that line slipped out of my memory. So I guess log in every 2.5 months.

[tbs2002]

FFL Sent in 7/23
ATF received 7/25
ATF took $30 7/26
ATF sent back app because I missed a line (oops) 8/26
ATF app sent back 8/29
ATF FFL03 received 9/6

COE applied 7/23
COE emailed about FFL# 8/25
Emailed COE about FFL# in progress 8/26
Filled out online COE form stating FFL# in progress 9/2
COE received 9/6

[cheapie408]

I just got an email from COE asking for my ffl 03#. I just respond to them saying its in progress.

Does your FFL just show up or is there a way to check the status?

[Quiet]

I just got an email from COE asking for my ffl 03#. I just respond to them saying its in progress.

Does your FFL just show up or is there a way to check the status?

It just shows up.

Contact BATFE (Email: FFLC@atf.gov) and ask them about the status.

Have when your payment was cashed/redeemed on hand, they will need it to track down your status.
^Bank/credit card records showing payment was redeemed.

[cheapie408]

Looks like they are working pretty fast about 4 weeks and I got my FFL03

[Thabaum]

Mailed in FFL February 14th,
February 16th credit card charged and also applied for COE online
March 7th California Firearms Application Reporting System (CFARS) Incomplete Notice
Emailed them back told them I applied for FFL03, and hour later another email telling me to log in and read notices, COE was approved
March 9th FFL arrived in Mail

Thank you all for the info. Was much easier than I thought it would be.