FBI Stops All Appeals Of Gun Owner Background Checks

Red State ^ | 26 Jan, 2016 | streiff

[MtnClimber]

Being flagged by a background check is not uncommon, it happened nearly 91,000 times in 2014. And it isn't even dispositive of the fact that you can't buy a firearm. The FBI's own documents say that being flagged

"indicates the prospective firearms transferee or another individual with a similar name and/or similar descriptive features was matched with either federally prohibiting criteria or state-prohibiting criteria."

Now imagine the chaos that would ensue if the the alleged "terror" watch list was fed, uncritically, into this system, adding another 700K or so names, many of which are identical to thousands of other people.

The real thing to watch here is whether the 'temporary reassignment" of personnel become permanent. There is no logical reason this can't be instituted. From there it is a but a hop-skip-and-jump to simply saying a person does not pass the background check whether they do or not.

[MtnClimber]

Incrementalism is what progressivism is about.

[laplata]

PROGRESSIVE = REPRESSIVE

[GraceG]

[ Incrementalism is what progressivism is about. ]

We need to be just an tenacious and incremental about the inherent rights we all should have...

[MtnClimber]

Progressing toward tyranny.

[Blood of Tyrants]

[I want the USA back]

Just another way of achieving their true goal.

[laplata]

Exactly!

Just as you said: incrementally.

[sonofagun]

Overwhelm the system until it fails?

[chesley]

What you have to ask yourself is, “Progress towards what?”

So few people do.

[apocalypto]

Exactly.

[laplata]

What you have to ask yourself is, “Progress towards what?”

So few people do.

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So true. Political Correctness has a lot to do with it. PC is pure evil. Look at Europe. The “men” protest the rape of their women by Muslims by wearing skirts and marching in touchy-feely parades.

[BenLurkin]

[suijuris]

After many years of routinely passing background checks and purchasing firearms, one day in 2012 I found my self denied by NICS based on erroneous information. Information so blatantly incorrect and insignificant that a child could have recognized it. It took more than a year and $2000 in legal fees to clear my name. Regardless, as always with Fed agencies like ATF and Dept of Injustice the burden is on you to prove your innocence.

During the process my attorney found that around 2010 the Dept of Injustice quietly initiated a program to data mine state and local records to uncover anything it could find, regardless of how innocuous, to deny and slow down sales for as many citizens as possible.

As you can imagine, the process was purposefully very slow and a pain in the ass. The DOJ rules to clear your name are loose with few guidelines for them, and they can take about as much time as they want to deal with you.

Should it ever happen to anyone I suggest they hire an attorney to let the DOJ know you mean business and will sue if necessary. Unfortunately, average Joe citizen doesn't have the fortitude or the money for legal fees to put up with the hassle and the DOJ knows it.