I summited my eform 4 Jan 13th.
Actually 2 of them 1 for a banish 22k,&the other for banish 30.
Got approved for 22k Wednesday and customer service rep said he wouldn't be surprised the 30 gets approved next week.
I was amazed in how quick it was.

I have one for a .22 LR can that I put in my eForm for in Jan. Still waiting.

I applied for one a month ago and was approved 5 days later. I couldn’t believe it.

Individual or trust?

Took mine over 250 days

Individual is taking 3-5 days on average. Trust is still taking a couple months.

Couple of months? More like 9-11 at least what I just went through

13 months

Is it truth that it makes a difference who you purchase through?

No it does not. The ATF don’t care.

Only difference is the experience level of the person filling out your forms. Mistakes cost you time. The worst experiences I have had purchasing have been from stores that don't do much volume and had random salespeople doing the paperwork. Maybe eforms will help with this, but generally now I try to buy at places that do enough volume to have at least one person that solely deals with nfa stuff. Got some good prices at a few small shops, but in the end it wasn't worth the extra wait times to have the paperwork returned multiple times for errors.

Trust

so individuals are being approved in < 1 week, while trusts are being approved in anywhere from 6-12 months...............why such a huge discrepancy?

Ditto, the only thing that made any appreciable difference (in the past anyway) was what letter your last name started with. You are assigned to an examiner based on your last name and some examiners have bigger backlogs/ worked slower and could make a difference up to maybe 4-6 weeks. I'm not sure that matters much anymore if they're turning around form 4's in under a week. The last one I purchased was back when there were 12 inspectors (IIRC) for the whole country. There used to be websites that tracked tracked the average turnaround time for each inspector.

My 30 banish got approved yesterday!

someone has to look at the trust paperwork and approve the trust,
the individual are computer processed