Posted on 02/15/2010 8:56:46 AM PST by pajama pundit
Last Saturday I went to "The Nation's Gun Show" in Chantilly, VA. I tried to buy two guns from two different vendors. I waited for over almost three hours for the "instant background check" to be completed, but finally left in frustration (I traveled almost an hour to get there). Granted, the place was packed, and there were hundreds of attempted transactions, but these gun shows are a regular occurrence, and there is a fee charged for the service.
There were several announcements over the PA explaining to the patrons that the background check delays were being experienced by all of the vendors and to contact your congressman and senator to complain.
On Sunday I was notified by one of the vendors that I had been approved so after church I decided to go pick up the gun. The vendor stated at the time that this was in fact de facto gun control. I’m sure that there were many sales lost because of this problem.
PP
Makes you wonder. Perhaps it had something to do with the snow storm in DC last week. At least you don’t have a 10 day waiting period.
In Texas, if you have a CHL license, I don’t think you have to go through the instant background check.
If they amanage to shut down the gunshows in your state, there’s always gunbroker.com and gunsamerica.com Find a gun dealer near you that will facilitate the transaction. It’s not as fun as an impule buy at a gun show but you can still get some really good deals.
I work the Gun Show for VCDL. The vendors have a connection problem in that location. All the vendors have the same problem. The wireless connections are overloaded in that area. It happens every show.
I’ve always run into delays buying a gun on the weekend in VA, whether at a gun show or at a shop. If it isn’t a deliberate attempt to slow-walk the process, then it’s a case of negligence since they surely have enough data by now to know what sort of traffic they’ll get on a weekend. And they should have been able to figure out what point in the process is slowing things down (heh, I’d wager the Feds but that’s just the cynic in me, I don’t have any data on it).
“In Texas, if you have a CHL license, I don’t think you have to go through the instant background check.”
Correct.
It makes impulse buying very easy and very bad (from a bank account perspective!)
I was there on Saturday along with thousands of your closest friends. The last time (last year) I bought a rifle there it took FOUR DAYS for my “instant” background check and I wound up picking it up several weeks later. Never again. Now I’ll only buy through a private sale on the floor. There was sweet AR15 that tempted me, and the only thing stopping me was money. Sigh.
Never saw such a crowd as was there on Saturday.
In VA one doesn’t need the background check if one has a CCP, as I recall.
There’s no need to upgrade anything. This gun buying craze is just a fad that will go away after awhile. /s
Might be another good reason to get a CCP then.
So, do we think that the Obamunists jiggered the instant check system to prevent gun transactions?
It wouldn’t, or SHOULDN’T be a state problem: the FBI runs the Instant Check System out of its’ Data Center in Clarksburg, WV, and has two satellite sites as call centers.
But, as I recall, both were in the path of the storms that smacked the East, hard, in the last two weeks. . .
If they were voice calling into the call centers, as opposed to using the online system, that could have been a problem IF the call centers were affected by the recent “Snowmageddon”: I know WE only got out of OUR neighborhood on Saturday, after effectively being snowed in for a week. . .
But if they used the online system and were getting delays, THEN there’s something going on. I used to work at the FBI center, and they track response time VERY closely, Congress usually is all over them if delays pop up. . .
Well, I guess it depends on who is an “Obamunist.” A card carrying member, or an (intentional or inept) enabler.
IIRC, It was the NRA that championed the use of instant background checks.
“The vendor stated at the time that this was in fact de facto gun control.”
That’s why I am not a memember of the NRA, but now a member of the GOA.
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