Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumLawmakers ask gun dealers to wait for background checks before selling guns
A delay in completing a background check is cited in the purchase of a weapon by Dylann Roof, who is alleged to have used the weapon to shoot and kill nine people attending a Bible study at an historic black Charleston, S.C. church last month.
The FBI is given up to three days to complete the check, with the vast majority done within minutes. But some take more than the three days allowed for completion of the tests. And in those rare cases, gun control advocates said the retailer should wait, as Wal-Mart does, for the background check's completion.
"There's no inconvenience to the retailer in simply requiring that they get information back from the background checks system before they let somebody walk out of their store with a gun," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., said. "Do you know why many of them take more than three days? Because there's a criminal trying to buy the gun and it takes the background check system some time to figure out what could be a complicated criminal history."
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/lawmakers_ask_gun_dealers_to_w.html
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)the NRA has successfully prevented the House Appropriations Committee from allocating the funds. Take it up with the NRA/ILA.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)They are violating Federal Law.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)So much for the myth of the law-abiding gun controller.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)NICS check. Happens all the time at RESPONSIBLE gun dealers. A couple comes in, he picks out a gun, she fills out the paper work and they are refused because it looks like a straw purchase.
No gun dealer HAS to sell a gun to anyone.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)In the scenario you described I would wholly agree with the seller not completing the sale but that is not what oneshooter was referring to.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)I've no doubt they would work to slow-walk application processing and data reporting as a way to circumvent the law and deprive legitimate applicants from obtaining permits.