Reply #39: I agree that there should be a flagging system [View All]

but the thing is, being turned down by the NICS doesn't really mean much at all. They are a weird little agency, and when they are busy they will turn people down for having a similiar name to a prohibited person, or they will delay people for no particular reason at all. I have been delayed three times this year, two times they called back within the three alotted days and approved me, the other time they didn't call back for a month, and they only called to say that the approval was expiring (I had changed my mind by then anyway).

So I can say out of personal experience it would certainly be awful to have every NICS denial checked out by the U.S. Marshals, a sure way to harass many many innocent people, and who knows how many criminals they would apprehend by doing that.