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From ground level, can confirm the crazy has not abated. Actually busier now than during peak covid because I started teaching classes again which I'm doing on my one day off (brilliant!).

Inventory at distributors right now is slim to none. Things started to recover from quarantine and then wham - civil unrest. Now we're swinging back toward more active covid while staring down the barrel of a contentious election. All we need locally (on the gulf coast) is a hurricane or perhaps a plaque of locusts.

NICS ran pretty good today. Still a 50/50 shot without a LTC. I'm about done in though. I could use a couple of weeks of forced staycation.

For the long haul, Obama is the sales champion. For single, short period panic...corona for the win. Nobody has seen anything like this.

NICS is running 'okay' today. Earlier we were at about 30% clearance rate for background checks, but now it's up to about 50%.

Ammo and guns still being crushed on sales.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:30 pm

Scott B. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:47 am

SewTexas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:25 am this doesn't make any sense, the law says at most 3 days to reject....nowhere in there does it say 3.5 weeks.
if the rejection doesn't come in 3 days the FFL should make the transfer.

Any FFL with considerable skin in the game is not going to gamble their federally issued license. FBI says adhere to the Brady Date given. Until there's a clarification, FFL who chose to gamble are risking suspension of their license at a minimum. We believe FBI to be in error, but you can't beat the ride.

I’m not criticizing, I’m just making sure I understood your reply. Are you saying that you would, or you wouldn’t transfer the gun after three days of no reply from NICS?

2nd question: is there anything specific in the law that allows NICS to unilaterally change the waiting period requirements?

The FBI is saying to go by their issued Brady Dates no matter what they are. They seem to be interpreting a claimed inability to complete a 'business day' because of some state offices being closed. What specific offices those are or what they have to do with a federal NICS check they're not saying. Nor is there any explanation why a day 3.5 weeks ahead is kosher but the statutory 3 biz days is not.

It stinks.

Amen brother.

...and we made it to about 11:30 before NICS became unusable. It hasn't technically crashed, but you can't successfully log in either.

SewTexas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:25 am this doesn't make any sense, the law says at most 3 days to reject....nowhere in there does it say 3.5 weeks.
if the rejection doesn't come in 3 days the FFL should make the transfer.

Any FFL with considerable skin in the game is not going to gamble their federally issued license. FBI says adhere to the Brady Date given. Until there's a clarification, FFL who chose to gamble are risking suspension of their license at a minimum. We believe FBI to be in error, but you can't beat the ride.

Finally decided to buy a firearm during a pandemic? Well, the joke's on you. So did everybody else. To the point that earlier in the week, NICS (the FBI's background check system) was experiencing a 300% increase in volume. In case you're wondering, that's a lot.

When old, government procured computer systems that run on a kludge of software have that much work load - they break down.

This leads to a lot of background check delays. We have a fun little federal thing called the Brady Law. One component of that law is that if you are delayed by NICS and no proceed or deny response has been received you may pick up your firearm on the indicated date, which comes after 3 business days. We call it, with much irony, your Brady Date and that's federal law.

During this pandemic panic, for reasons we still aren't clear on, Texans who are being delayed are receiving Brady Dates that are 3.5 weeks away, currently mid-April. Despite the Brady Law. NICS is attempting to blame this on state government closures. That's even though Texas government still operating and Texas does not require a state level background check before NICS.

Now, if that wasn't enough, and you knew more was coming, NICS is also 'breaking down' to the point of failure. In fact, the NICS computer system completely cratered Friday afternoon around 4 o'clock. It couldn't even be accessed. This lasted until around 9/10 PM.

As of Saturday morning, FFLs across the county can at least reach the NICS computer system. They just can't log in.

Be glad you have your LTC and can bypass all this nonsense and be glad you are already armed. Your friends and neighbors were not as prepared and now they have to live with those choices and the choices they have made at the ballot box.

Enjoy your weekend my friends.




UPDATE: NICS is now allowing FFLs to log in. Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary — The American Government.