background check delay

[Redcat94]

Since Wisconsin got rid of the three day waiting period I've been delayed several times. Maybe I had been delayed before and just never knew it. Sometimes they just get backed up. We miss deadlines at my job to.

[painter]

In NH long guns go through the state, and handguns go through the Feds.

I've never waited more than a few minutes, and that's usually when there's a gunshow somewhere in the state. It takes longer to fill out the 4473.

Hopefully that remains true when I go pick up my latest purchase in the next couple of days.

[bsand]

Some states go through their state police.

But ultimately, the state police still goes through NICS in the end LOL

In WA a cpl let's the FFL bypass State Police checks and just lets them forward to FBI. They just have to notify state Police that a transfer has taken place within 24 hrs.

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[eastman]

In Illinois, the current average approval wait is 5 days.  The Illinois State Police do the approvals here.

And even worse in the DPRI, they have to wait until they receive the actual approval from the ISP. No "if it takes longer than 3 working days, it is done".

[delphidoc]

It all worked out for me- got to pick up the gun the next day. Here's what got me bugged enough to start the thread: a hold was placed due to "high volume." When I bought my 97B it was on a Saturday, a couple of weeks before it looked like Hillary was going to be elected. If there was ever going to be high volume it was going to be then, in my mind. I had to wait about 30 minutes then. But during the middle of a week in January after a quasi-conservative just got elected? I can't see that being a high-volume period.