I got an email from NICS this afternoon. They will be "temporarily disabling" the NICS background check system Monday March 30. No doubt they have been overwhelmed, and they are short staffed. That said you can't buy a gun from a store without passing a NICS background check in most states unless your concealed permit allows to do so.
So no way to do a background check means you can buy a gun but you can't take it with you.
This is something POTUS needs to address. Someone needs to start one of those WH petitions they have to answer after 100k signatures (or whatever the number is).
Sure seems like a federal attempt at gun control across 50 States. There are ways to plus up federal staff to avoid short staffing.
This is exactly what we were warning about back when waiting periods and such were first enacted in 1993. All it takes is for the government ot be unable to process checks and suddenly nobody in this country can legally buy a gun.
NICS has had computer issues for ENICS since inception, and the call center has issues from time to time. They have had short interruptions in the past but always came back in service after a prescribed time.
This is something different, no time frame given, just "temporarily".
Given current events that "temporary" time frame sucks.
Well if anything the liberal commies that want to buy a gun now can get a taste of what all their BS legislation throughout the years have cost us.
Pennsylvania has a PICS system which is tied into NICS. I recalled getting notices they would be down periodically for ''system maintenance and upgrades'' , when I was in the business.
Correction to the previous email. beginning at 12:01 am ET, Saturday March 28, 2020 until 8 am ET, Monday March 30, 2020 the NICS Section will be temporarily disabling the Transfer Process.
They still need to approve the sale after x-number of days. It means people in some states can't walk in and walk out with a gun. Hopefully its not much more than a one day delay.
@ contender85: Thanks for the clarity provided. Perhaps the OP got these emails too, but misinterpreted them?
@ glider: Your comment was still irrelevant since you bought a gun on Friday, even before this new info about the weekend. No thoughts on why you didn't get the emails.
Just to clarify, there's a difference between "temporary " and "life cycle". Speaking for the FT Bragg barracks and work space, they were built in the early years of WWII. They were designed with a 25 year service life. My grandfather lived in one in 1942, have a picture of him, with the building number. In 2003, I lived in one of those buildings for 2 months- as fate would have it, the SAME buildings that my grandfather lived in back in 1942.... i worked out of one in 2007.
They're all gone now.... but they did outlive their programmed service life....
NICS remains open here in FL. FFL called in for authorization at 1300 today, receive authorization to proceed at 1311, a whopping 11 minutes later, I walked out with my new pistol.
Another vote against universal background checks. I haven't asked the .gov for permission to exercise my 2A and I'll never do so. Buying used isn't that bad at all.
I picked up a gun on Monday, two days ago at 11am.
Everything went fine and quick. No issues at all.
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