Ever hold a security clearance?
I've been delayed ever since I received mine. Figure that one out.
Did you miss my post (#5)?
Ever hold a security clearance?
I've been delayed ever since I received mine. Figure that one out.
Always use your social security number on the form. I've seen 2 persons denied when they didn't use their SS#only to be approved the next day when they tried again with their SS#I got a delay on my recent purchase of a shotgun. I don't have anything on my record that would prevent me from purchasing it. I have purchased many firearms with no problems. What is the deal with this?? Please help...
OK, here's how it works.
The call is placed to Person A. Person A enters your information and provides a transaction number (NTN). He gets one of three results: proceed, delayed or denied.
Proceed is self-explanatory, as is denied.
A delay result gets forwarded to Person B. Person B can dig a bit deeper, say to make sure you're not THAT Expvideo. If Person B, based on the resources they have at the time, can clear it, they will, and it's a proceed.
(Incidentally, about 30-40% of transactions need a minute's review by Person B before they go to "proceed.")
The transaction remains delayed if Person B can't get the information to clear it up. This could mean any number of things.
Maybe there's an Expvideo in another state who jumped bail, and your personal information is similar, or maybe your name is flagged on a local system for something.
For example, if you were in a car accident this morning, your name has been entered into a local law-enforcement database. Even if it's not your fault and you weren't cited, the name is in there. States have differing ways of doing this, but in some, just having your name on a police report at all will throw up a yellow flag.
So, you go to buy a gun that evening at 5:05PM. NICS runs the check and finds that there's a yellow flag because of a recently-created record on the local level. Person A transfers the matter to Person B. Person B tries to look it up, but whatever local system your name is in closed up at 5:00PM. Result: delay.
Other people who are affected this way are judges, law enforcement and folks with government clearance. Why? Because your name is In The System, and if they can't verify why within a few minutes, it goes to delay.
Time constraints are another reason. They've got a flood of calls coming in and a limited number of operators to process them. So, if the system's slow, or if they can't get the information quickly enough, they'll let it default to "delay."
The whole NICS thing has improved a great deal over the last few years (since Holder hasn't been running it), but it's still got a few wrinkles.