ATF Games Over Revoking Use Of CHPs For Gun Sales
BY Herschel Smith
4 years ago
Gun Owners of America recently filed a lawsuit against the ATF, after the agency blocked Alabama firearms dealers from allowing buyers to use their concealed handgun permits in place of going through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Federal law says that state concealed handgun permits (CHP) that meet or exceed the requirement of section 922(t)(3) of Title 18 can be used by dealers instead of requiring background checks. Alabama’s concealed firearms permit statute meets the federal requirements because sheriffs are supposed to run applicants through NICS before issuing a permit.
The ATF discovered that some sheriffs in Alabama were not using NICS. Some of these sheriffs were running applicants through The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and other federal databases, but not NICS. Yet NCIC is the same database that NICS pulls its information from before returning with a denial or approval. The ATF decided to revoke dealers’ ability to use CHPs because of a few sheriffs’ actions.
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… as ATF records show, multiple ATF employees decided it was worth the litigation risk because of “public safety.
Oh it has nothing at all to do with “public safety” and they know it. That’s a smoke screen.
But it does go to show just how much the ATF is feeling its oats.
On October 30, 2020 at 6:08 am, Heywood said:
They don’t like it because then there isn’t a paper trail. It has never had anything ti do with safety. Background checks are a gun registry. Period.
On October 30, 2020 at 7:55 am, Ned2 said:
Would this insinuate that those NICS records are not being destroyed as they’re supposed to be?
On October 30, 2020 at 9:26 am, Heywood said:
@ned2. How long does it take after a shooting for the media to report where the guns were purchased and whether it was legally? Where do you think they get that info?
On October 30, 2020 at 11:43 am, Ned2 said:
Heywood, I was trying a little sarcasm. I’ll try harder next time.
On October 30, 2020 at 1:02 pm, Fred said:
Donald J. Trump’s ATF.
On October 30, 2020 at 4:47 pm, Heywood said:
@NED2. No sir. My apologies. It is pretty obvious reading your post it was sarcastic. I just need to wait until after my second cup of coffee before commenting. Again, that one is on me.
On October 31, 2020 at 12:52 pm, JFP said:
“Would this insinuate that those NICS records are not being destroyed as they’re supposed to be?”
Perish the thought good sir! Besides, its not as if there are states where the state cops do the background check instead of the FBI directly and are also supposed to delete the records they keep. I’m sure they never ever would send that data to the feds or other states. Let alone keep them secretly or just forget to delete the info or even remember what the procedure is for deleting that data.
Of course, I’m sure the ATF has never ever shown up to audit the books of FFL’s and copied the 4473 data by machine either.