Gun purchases allowed if background checks unresolved after waiting period

[SecularMotion]

Under Washington state law, staff members at licensed gun shops have the discretion to sell a gun to a customer after 10 business days, even if the customer’s background check has not yet come back with a resolution.

Other states that do not have more specific rules fall under federal law, which only requires a waiting period of three business days for long gun sales.

Biff Lenihan, who recently purchase a gun in Bellevue, told KIRO 7 he took home his revolver after the 10-day waiting period had passed, even though his background check was unresolved.

Lenihan said, “I walked out, I sat in my rig, and I said, ‘what the hell just happened?’”

http://www.kiro7.com/news/gun-purchases-allowed-if-background-checks-unresolved-within-waiting-period/63847833

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. So what are the odds that a state that can't complete a simple database search in 10 days will

be able to interdict a violent criminal in mere minutes?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. This modern age of electronic efficiency...

...is more than capable of producing millions of smart guns that can operate with 100% precision in milliseconds but a federal/state database can't get out of its own way in a week plus.

[Duckhunter935]

2. 10 days is plenty long

In this newfangled electronic age.

[DonP]

4. Why worry? It's only one or two guys buying all of them.

With the massive increase in new guns being sold to that one guy, they really needn't worry since it's always the same guy, maybe two, and they've both been cleared by NICS thousands of times every week for buying millions of new guns being sold every year.

Good thing the President authorized all those new people to run checks huh?

[beevul]

5. So push for better efficiency in the system.

Instead I get the impression you'd be find if the wait was lengthenned to 180 days.

A right delayed is a right denied.

[GreydeeThos]

6. Innocent until proven guilty

The burden of proof rests on the accuser.

If the State wants to deny a person's right to be armed, then the State must supply the proof needed for the denial.

The State does not grant the right to be armed; that right exists for all citizens and preceded the formation of the Government. The State can only restrict rights and only when evidence to do so is presented.