Background Check Law Cost Taxpayers Big Time

[Cratic3947]

The FBI is corrupt and a dem operation and should not have anything to do with people’s right to bear arms.

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@GrandWazoo

Charleston church shooting families reach $88M settlement with DOJ

So the article notes that the FBI has been working to improve their background check mechanism. But the law still remains that if they can’t complete the background check in three days the applicant gets the gun.
If this limit had not been in place it is very likely that Roof would not have been able to purchase the gun. Sure, he might have found a way to get a gun and commit the murders. But I do think that the three day limit should be extended.

How come we can vet people, without using computers and the FBI, coming from nations known for exporting terrorism on the spur of the moment, and allow them to fly into our country, but we can’t vet our own citizens who have no questionable history in 3 days?

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@Scratch

Until its done…

The reason the NICS was enacted with the 3 day (that’s not inflexible, there are provisions that can extend that to two weeks I think it is) performance period was established is because under the earlier Brady Bill, the FBI was often taking weeks to complete the checks. Now, they complete most in less than two minutes. It takes me longer to fill out the Form 4473 than it takes to have them complete the background check and approve the purchase. Give them “until it’s done” and, depending on who is in the White House, they could drag their feet indefinitely like they do with class 3, permits.

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@Scratch

No…Lets say they get a week. It’s not done by then, you go to top of list. Something along those lines

The top of what list? Do you have any idea of what you are talking about?

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@DougBH

If the law said three days and it wasn’t practical to do a check in three days, then the FBI wasn’t responsible.
The people who were paid the money certainly had huge amounts of damage…but by Roof, not the federal government.
So lets not pretend that what the FBI did cost 88 million. Garland just decided to make a humanitarian/political gesture by giving that money to them.
Just as he is considering giving it to people for crossing the border illegally.

The FBI doesn’t have to stop doing the check in three days, they can keep looking up until they are required to delete the record of the transaction (30 days I think … might be longer.) If they find cause to not approve the purchase, they can rescind the approval and confiscate the gun. Why they did not do that with Roof is one of those unanswered questions.

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@westaussie

Hilariously uninformed.

Yes you are, but it’s not particularly funny.

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@GrandWazoo

Charleston church shooting families reach $88M settlement with DOJ

So the article notes that the FBI has been working to improve their background check mechanism. But the law still remains that if they can’t complete the background check in three days the applicant gets the gun.
If this limit had not been in place it is very likely that Roof would not have been able to purchase the gun. Sure, he might have found a way to get a gun and commit the murders. But I do think that the three day limit should be extended.

How come we can vet people, without using computers and the FBI, coming from nations known for exporting terrorism on the spur of the moment, and allow them to fly into our country, but we can’t vet our own citizens who have no questionable history in 3 days?

The situation with Roof was that the run in with the law that would have put a hold on his purchase was not uploaded in a timely manner to the FBI data base by the LE Agency that he ran afoul with. But as I said, when that information was available, the FBI could have … should have … rescinded the approval and either confiscated the gun themselves or alerted to do so.