J jeep78 Can I ask what you do for a living? Reason I ask this is how would you feel by doing a repeated task every week and not getting paid for it?
That is basically what you are asking of the dealers. It would take them vast amounts of time to call the NFA and then call or email the customers to inform them, yep, your still Pending!
Plus as it has already been said, this would make the NFA almost grind to a stop as they would be busy answering the thousands of phone calls daily to do this update search. I would rather the NFA spend it's time to process the applications than answer a phone. Yes, it would be nice to be able to go online and see where your form is at, but hopefully with in a short time frame, the HPA 2017 will pass and we won't have to worry about it.
Do you know what happens should your friendly dealer declare bankruptcy while you are waiting?