Posted on 11/14/2024 4:17:05 PM PST by yesthatjallen
In the United States of America, with the Second Amendment protecting our natural right to keep and bear arms, one would think that computer difficulties wouldn’t stop gun sales in an entire state for nearly two weeks.
Alas, one would be wrong.
Since November 1, nobody has been able to legally purchase a firearm in Washington State because of a computer system in the state’s Secure Automated Firearms E-Check (SAFE) system being “compromised.” That’s the program through which Washington conducts its background checks, instead of just going through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) system.
When employees realized the system had been “compromised” on November 1 (they won’t say what that means), rather than figuring out how to fix it or putting some standby system into place, they immediately shut it down, making it impossible for gun dealers to run background checks for purchases. Since private sales are outlawed in the state, that effectively shut down all legal gun buying and selling.
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This is when you ignore the State Laws and do as you need to do.
Why not just use the standard FBI system, like almost every other state does?
private sales are outlawed?
has it been challenged?
Hypothetically, if, as an example, the system went down at say 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and they reported it would be down for the rest of the day. They were only be a two hour, or so, interruption in sales, I wouldn’t consider that a huge constitutional crisis, as long as it was communicated from the state with plans for the next day should the system not be brought up to allow sales, such as utilizing the FBI system directly, or some other solution. However, for it to be down over a week is simply unexcused usable with no workaround
Like I said in these cases you MUST take the Law into your own hands.
I would assume there’s various legal challenges about private sales, etc. In these Democrat run states it just takes years and years for them to wind other ways through the court, when the Democrat run states have nearly unlimited piles of cash to throw at these unconstitutional laws to try to defend them.
It may not be currently challenged in one state, but another state may have something in federal court going on that. They are waiting for to see how that goes, etc.
I expect more systems will become ‘compromised’ in other states that have their own systems, and maybe even the Feds system will soon become ‘compromised’. For sure it would be had Harris won.
Well I am in Arkansas and 2nd AD is fully practiced as we have CCW and Open Carry both and with a CCW you do not need to go through any FBI check, pay and go...Blue States are so screwed up People in those States get what they deserve as elections have consequences.
Word is Trump and Congress are going to pass a CCW national reciprocity law so none of these Blue states can prevent a CCW permit.
The same old computer that “counts” the ballots ?
Based on the past use of the Interstate Commerce clause to force federal dictates on us, I wonder why it doesn’t apply to national reciprocity
Not sure but I was not in favor of a national bill but if it ramrods CCW down the throats of these Blue States I can live with it.
“Like I said in these cases you MUST take the Law into your own hands.”
And that means what exactly? Cabela’s has a rifle you want, but you can’t buy it because the state system is down. And you take the law into your hands exactly how? You steal the rifle from Cabela’s? Seriously, how do you take the law into your own hands in that situation? Can you give me a concrete example?
Communists are brazen, sneaky, and resourceful...
***private sales are outlawed?***
How are they going to stop them if done in an alley behind the rest of the stores. We need to return to the Pre-1968 gun era.
A lot less crime back then till the news media began hyping the deaths of certain Politicians.
Well that’s one way to institute a ban...
Just drive to Idaho.
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