An unusually high number of the delays and denials are on people who normally get instant approvals for past purchases…
National Instant Criminal Background Check System
NC Sheriff’s Association Attempting to Remove Pro-Gun Provision from Omnibus Bill
The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) is working overtime to defeat NRA’s efforts to eliminate the current Pistol Purchase Permit system that allows sheriffs to use arbitrary, personal…..
For It Before We Were Against It
NRA’s Chris Cox called the expanded background check proposal “misguided,” and said that it would not reduce violent crime, “or keep our kids safe in their schools.” The left-wing media is still crowing, “flip-flop!”…
January Improvements to the NICS E-Check 2.0
The FBI NICS Section is kicking off 2014 with some improvements to the NICS E-Check 2.0, some of which were developed based upon ideas and feedback from you, the FFLs that we serve…
National Shooting Sports Foundation Testifies for FixNICS before R.I. Task Force
Our FixNICS effort is gaining ground. Several state legislatures have passed measures to improve the reporting of all records on prohibited persons, including adjudicated mental health records to NICS…
National Instant Criminal Background Check System E-Check: Register Now – Save Time Later
The NICS E-Check allows you to conduct firearm background checks over the internet and provides many benefits you don’t receive from the NICS Contracted Call Centers…
NICS Will Continue to Operate if There Is a Government Shutdown
Law enforcement activities are designated as essential services and do not shut down even if the Congress and President fail to agree on funding legislation…
Are Maryland State Police Unable or Unwilling to Expedite Instant Back Ground Checks
Maryland State Police seem unable to meet the record demand for firearms back ground checks by state residents and have now fallen over 100 days behind in processing the firearms applications of law abiding purchasers…
Gov. Bobby Jindal Signs NSSF-Advocated FixNICS Legislation into Law in Louisiana
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, last Wednesday, signed six favorable gun bills into law, including one advocated by NSSF requiring certain court records be sent to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System …
June Background Checks as Related To Gun Purchases Up 3.0 Percent
This marks the 37th straight month that NSSF-adjusted NICS figures have increased when compared to the same period the previous year…
Background Check Gun Records Are Saved
The NICS background check system is already designed as and fully functional record storage system and federal gun registry…
NICS Operations Stats Too Horrible to Believe
Typical Keystone Kops procedures plague the system — “overburdened field investigators… delaying investigation of prosecutable cases… insufficient resources… insufficient staffing… extensive case backlogs… ” it’s a loooonng list…
NICS Failing, Background-Checked Fugitives Set Free, Constantly
From a knowledgeable observer: “Because unless we have more crime and violence we won’t be able to justify taking everybody’s gun away”…
New Jersey Instant NICS Delays, Your Voice Is Being Heard – Keep It Up
The New Jersey Second Amendment Society is currently investigating our legal options, and it is more important than ever for you to register your complaint….
Firearms Industry Trade Association Lauds Passage of Bill Adding Records to Background Check System
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, today praised the Louisiana House of Representatives for its unanimous passage on Tuesday of Senate Bill 135…
NJ2AS Statement Regarding NJ Firearms BackGround Check Delays
Is the New Jersey State Police Slow Walking Gun Rights During Firearms Purchases???
FBI NICS Transaction Status Update
I want to assure everyone, the NICS Section is no way trying to slow down firearm sales by making you wait on hold or by not accepting general customer service calls…
Nix the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
Logic tells us that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System will never work to control crime in America, even if it is expanded to become “universal”. The very nature of how criminals obtain firearms is criminal…
Just Say No to ‘Universal Background Checks’
If you wish to weigh in on this, send something similar yourself, or just send an email, fax or phone message saying “I agree with the MSSA position against “universal background checks.”…
Why ‘Universal Background Checks’ Won’t Work
Criminals won’t participate in a “universal” system. They’ll always steal or get their guns, and everything else they want, on the black market. Reasonable people know that criminals will never be part of the “universe.”…
The MADD Model Protecting Our 2nd Amendment Rights
This is the ideal model for gun violence control. We don’t need to limit the number or types of guns and ammunition law-abiding citizens can purchase. Stricter, mandatory punishment for violations is essential…
Firearm Background Checks Don’t Impede Criminals
NFOA released an Open Letter to Congress and the American people announcing their opposition to any effort to institute government controls on private transfers of personal firearms between law-abiding individuals….
Open Up The Background Check System, Make it Free & Easy To Use
Connecticut Carry proposes that the legislators instead work towards a bill to completely open our background check system and provide instant access to it for free via the internet and smart phone applications as well….
Gun Owners Wouldn’t & Shouldn’t Accept ‘Universal Background Checks’
The politicians remember what happened after the ban was passed in 1994 and they know there would be a serious price to pay for supporting bans on these popular tools today.
Will the U.S. Follow Germany’s Freedom Killing Example?
With everyone’s name already on an index card (read: 4473 forms) in what was effectively a “universal background check,” it was a small step to a national gun registry…
‘Universal Background Checks’ – Absolutely Not
The Obama administration’s gun ban agenda and universal background check system are unconstitutional regulatory schemes to gut the Second Amendment…
New Videos Added To FBI’s NICS Web Site
Customers who want to know what the NICS Process is and what causes someone to be delayed, proceeded and/or denied. The video also goes through the NICS Process but does it at a customer’s point of view…
Gun Buyers Swamp NICS, FBI Experiencing An Equivalent Of Five Black Fridays
Thank you so much for your continued patience with FBI NICS, our system and staff. The volume of incoming transactions (gun background checks) has and continues to be unprecedented…
FFL’s Are You Interested In Signing Up For ATF’s E-Check
One major positive, this time of year, is once a NICS E-Checks transaction is submitted, a NICS Examiner, on average, will begin processing it within 20 seconds…
NICS Delays & Customer Service Call Interruption
In the wake of the Sandy School Shooting driving gun purchases, combined with the holiday gun buying NICS has announced delays…