r/NFA
All things NFA
Founded November 2010 · Public — anyone can post
A community of hobbyists interested in NFA items, history, and news. We seek to expand general understanding of the laws collectively referred to as the National Firearms Act and their implications for gun owners and citizens of today. Silencer, SBR, SBS, DD, AOW, and MG posts are all welcome here. Content suggesting non-compliance or discouraging NFA ownership will not be tolerated.
Members
282,401
282K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
40.3
from the last 100 posts, spanning 2.5 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.1%
+3K members · ≈36d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 16
sampled Oct 16
Distinct posters
97%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 10 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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r/NFA — frequently asked
How many members does r/NFA have?
r/NFA has 282,401 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 16. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/NFA growing?
Over the last ≈36 days r/NFA changed by +1.1% — a gain of 3K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/NFA?
Around 40.3 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 2.5 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/NFA created?
r/NFA was founded in November 2010 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/NFA?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 97% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 16. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/NFA?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/NFA yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/NFA for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/NFA into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/NFA's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/NFA's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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