FBI official: 'Perfect storm' imperiling gun background checks

[Gman]

FBI official: 'Perfect storm' imperiling gun background checks (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-official-perfect-storm-imperiling-gun-background-checks/ar-BBordM9?li=BBnbfcL)


CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The surge of criminal background checks required of new gun purchasers has been so unrelenting in recent months that the FBI had been forced to temporarily halt the processing of thousands of appeals from prospective buyers whose firearm purchase attempts have been denied.

Since October, the bureau’s entire cadre of appeal examiners— about 70 analysts — was redeployed here to help keep pace with waves of incoming background investigations that continued through December when a record 3.3 million firearm sales were processed.

The transfer of examiners, which had left a backlog of 7,100 appeals, is only part of a makeshift reorganization that FBI Assistant Director Stephen Morris said has become necessary to handle a burgeoning workload that expands in the wake of every mass shooting and call for increased gun control that invariably prompt firearms sales binges across the country.

“The last several months, we've kind of found ourselves in a perfect storm,’’ Morris said in an interview with USA TODAY. In each of the last six months, the number of background checks has risen steadily, according to FBI records, ending with December's record with more than a half-million over the previous monthly high posted in the aftermath of the 2012 Newtown, Conn., school massacre.

Since before Thanksgiving weekend, all annual leave for the more than 400 employees of the bureau’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System has been canceled. That Black Friday, the system was swamped with 185,345 background check requests on new firearm sales, a new single-day record. Morris said temporary background check examiners also are being pulled from internal construction projects and bureau divisions that oversee the gathering of crime statistics across the nation.
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[Great-Kazoo]

Of course the comments read like this.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA. Without your courage signing Executive orders for Background Checks, I can't (shudder) imagine how many criminals could be buying guns on line. Thank you Mr. President.


The dumfuking of America continues, unchecked.

[TFOGGER]

Once again, the Liberal media blames it on us, saying in effect "You're buying too many guns, that's why the background check system isn't working!"

Fucking idiots...[facepalm]

[Skip]

Halting appeals = denial of right.

This is one the ways DC got in trouble after Heller. They decided to sit on permitting and claim it was delayed.

[speedysst]

I read about three comments before the stupid stink became too much for me to bear. Sigh...

[brutal]

Some interesting pieces of the article.


"Depending on the volume of gun sales, at any one time the queue of pending cases — which by law must be resolved within three business days — generally ranges in the several thousand. Recently, those numbers have ballooned as high as 13,000. If the cases, some of which depend on local law enforcement agencies finding paper records to satisfy an examiner's search, cannot be resolved within the three-day period, gun dealers are generally free to complete the sales."Some (cases) aren't being looked at until the third day,'' Morris said, referring to the increasing volume and limited staffing."

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Roof serves as cautionary tale

The enormous stakes are not always apparent, until the first reports of a new mass shooting echo across social media or cable television.
No one recent case underscores the sobering nature of the work here more, officials said, more than an April transaction in South Carolina, reviewed by a veteran examiner at the West Virginia facility.

In that case, which could not be resolved within the three-day period, Dylann Roof was mistakenly allowed to walk away with the .45-caliber handgun allegedly used two months later to kill nine people during an evening Bible study session at the iconic Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston.

During the background check, Roof's March arrest on felony drug charges was mistakenly attributed to the Lexington County, S.C., Sheriff's Department, not the Columbia, S.C., Police Department, which actually made the arrest. The sheriff's department operates the jail where Roof had been detained.

The Columbia police report included information that Roof admitted to drug possession, which would have triggered an immediate denial by NICS, according to bureau guidelines. But that information was never seen by the reviewer because the FBI's database did not include Columbia police contacts in its list of agency contacts for Lexington County purchase reviews. The reviewer did attempt to reach the Lexington County prosecutor's office, which was handling the drug case at the time, but received no response. "


What I see in this is that, due to State's requiring more background checks on law abiding private individual sales, the system is more broken than ever before and will let slip through more prohibited buyers than ever before. And this administration wants to add even more checks. [facepalm]

[thedave1164]

A right delayed is a right denied

[Gman]

What I see in this is that, due to State's requiring more background checks on law abiding private individual sales, the system is more broken than ever before and will let slip through more prohibited buyers than ever before. And this administration wants to add even more checks. [facepalm]
...and the more the pResident flaps his gums, the worse he makes his situation.


Sent from my electronic leash.

[XJ]

It is almost like they watched what happened here a while back, and a light bulb went on above someone's head.

Likely the #1 priority is getting the twitter account set up to notify the serfs how much longer the average wait will be.