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Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« on: October 06, 2013, 09:48:58 PM »
Anyone purchased a new firearm since the 1st from a dealer and needed to go through the NCIS?  If so was it up and running?

Surprised the Obama hasn't targeted this as non-essential.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2013, 10:00:26 PM »
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2013, 10:03:20 PM »
Isn't a unanswered nics inquiry automatically approved if not answered in x days?
I remember reading that somewhere.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2013, 10:51:15 PM »
Quote from: never_retreat on October 06, 2013, 10:03:20 PM
Isn't a unanswered nics inquiry automatically approved if not answered in x days?
I remember reading that somewhere.


3 days but I could see this administration shutting it down so you can't even request one to be done.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2013, 11:00:03 PM »
The NCIS system is critical to a whole bunch of things, many of them law enforcement checks on suspects etc. and the firearm purchaser BGC's are only a piece of the system, so it stays up and running.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2013, 11:02:55 PM »
They have shut down the Amber Alert system.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2013, 11:15:43 PM »
Quote from: never_retreat on October 06, 2013, 10:03:20 PM
Isn't a unanswered nics inquiry automatically approved if not answered in x days?
I remember reading that somewhere.


I do not know about "unanswered" but if an NICS inquiry is not returned as DENIED then it is the seller's discretion. This is why if you are "delayed" most FFLs will release the gun to you in a few days if they do not get a call back as "denied".

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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2013, 11:31:20 PM »
This question seems to come up pretty often, lately.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2013, 12:46:06 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on October 06, 2013, 11:02:55 PM
They have shut down the Amber Alert system.

Are you kidding me?

That's awful.

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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2013, 05:18:08 AM »
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2013, 08:29:58 AM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on October 07, 2013, 12:46:06 AM
Are you kidding me?

That's awful.



www.amberalert.gov auto-redirects to the page lupinus linked. Apparently they shut down a bunch of sites "due to lack of funding", redirecting them all to the "Unavailable" page.

But fedgov has money to rent forklifts and barricades to lock down open-air memorials, threaten veterans with arrest for peacefully visiting same, and to try to SHUT DOWN THE FREAKING ATLANTIC OCEAN!
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2013, 09:30:03 AM »
Just to be clear it's NICS. NCIS is the Naval Criminal Investigative Service....you know, with the bad TV show.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2013, 11:40:23 AM »
Quote from: jamisjockey on October 07, 2013, 09:30:03 AM
Just to be clear it's NICS. NCIS is the Naval Criminal Investigative Service....you know, with the bad TV show.

They have some folks furloughed as well. My NCIS buddy used the time to drink whiskey and assemble an AR15.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2013, 04:16:49 PM »
Quote from: erictank on October 07, 2013, 08:29:58 AM
www.amberalert.gov auto-redirects to the page lupinus linked. Apparently they shut down a bunch of sites "due to lack of funding", redirecting them all to the "Unavailable" page.

But fedgov has money to rent forklifts and barricades to lock down open-air memorials, threaten veterans with arrest for peacefully visiting same, and to try to SHUT DOWN THE FREAKING ATLANTIC OCEAN!

I'm not seeing a unavailable page,  I click on current amber alerts and it shows none at this time, but nothing unavailable.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2013, 05:58:21 PM »
NICS will be running. BATFE sent out several emails informing us that it would remain if there was a shutdown.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2013, 10:00:29 PM »
There was a headline on Drudge I think that said the Amber Alert system was down, but one of Michelle Obama's useless sites was still up.  I guess someone decided they didn't like bad press.  

I was also going to say I bought a gun, but no phone call was required.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2013, 11:05:27 PM »
Quote from: erictank on October 07, 2013, 08:29:58 AM
www.amberalert.gov auto-redirects to the page lupinus linked. Apparently they shut down a bunch of sites "due to lack of funding", redirecting them all to the "Unavailable" page.

But fedgov has money to rent forklifts and barricades to lock down open-air memorials, threaten veterans with arrest for peacefully visiting same, and to try to SHUT DOWN THE FREAKING ATLANTIC OCEAN!


Yawn. The duly elected administration at work, doing what it has set about to do.  =|
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #18 on: October 08, 2013, 08:11:25 AM »
Bought a gun last night, it was probably the fastest transaction I've had to date.
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Re: Firearms Purchases During Shutdown
« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2013, 12:01:25 PM »
Quote from: brimic on October 08, 2013, 08:11:25 AM
Bought a gun last night, it was probably the fastest transaction I've had to date.

Mine, too. Took more time to give my information to the Feebs than to get the "Go ahead" from them. Maybe 3 minutes end-to-end.

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