Copied from an email I just received.

State Police Announce Shutdown
of Pennsylvania Instant Check System

The Pennsylvania State Police have announced a shutdown of the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) set to go into effect Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007 at 6 p.m. until Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 at noon. During this time period no transfers of firearms will be allowed and no concealed carry permits will be issued. This outage also coincides with the beginning of the mourning dove season which opens Sept. 1.

"While no one opposes upgrades and improvements to the state police criminal records databases, we are very disappointed that the state police are providing just short notice of this outage, that they have scheduled the outage at the beginning of the dove season and that the outage will last for four days," said NSSF Senior Vice President Lawrence G. Keane. "We will be working with NRA, the Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus and the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs Inc. to inform the state police of our concerns and to try to find ways to lessen the inconvenience to Pennsylvania firearms dealers and their customers. We will explore whether dealers can temporarily conduct background checks through FBI-NICS and whether the outage can be scheduled to be done during the overnight period or at a less inconvenient time of year."

NSSF urges you to please contact your state representatives and Lt. Gary L. Schuler, director of the Pennsylvania State Police Firearms Division, immediately to express your disappointment and concern.

Contact your legislators:

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To contact Pennsylvania State Police Firearms Division Director Lt. Gary L. Schuler, call the Firearms Division at 717-783-5593.

Mods - I also posted this in the Hometown PA forum. Please leave it in GD as it gets more traffic.

The 2nd Ammendment on hold.....

Quoted: Copied from an email I just received. State Police Announce Shutdown of Pennsylvania Instant Check System The Pennsylvania State Police have announced a shutdown of the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) set to go into effect Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007 at 6 p.m. until Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 at noon. During this time period no transfers of firearms will be allowed and no concealed carry permits will be issued. This outage also coincides with the beginning of the mourning dove season which opens Sept. 1. snip

Yet your title says a month.

Your title: PA Instant Check to shutdown September 2 for one month!

Statement from the article: set to go into effect Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007 at 6 p.m. until Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 at noon.


 Not that it's right but a bit less than a month.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like 4 days, not one month.

Quoted: Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007 at 6 p.m. until Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 at noon.

That's 4 days. You PA people have awfully short months.
 
ETA: Damn..pointed out 5 times in less than  75 seconds.

OK, OK, my bad. Edited and fixed.

Geez, shoulda just left it in the PA forum.

"Tough crowd tonight!"

God damn it.  

I work in IT for a bank and do updates all the time.  We would have the FDIC, state, and customers jumping all over us if we were down for more than a day let alone 4.  

Quoted: Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like 4 days, not one month.

+1

Quoted: God damn it.   I work in IT for a bank and do updates all the time.  We would have the FDIC, state, and customers jumping all over us if we were down for more than a day let alone 4.   Quoted: Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like 4 days, not one month. +1

But your not police. Your a "civilian" and you must take the abuse

Quoted: God damn it.   I work in IT for a bank and do updates all the time.  We would have the FDIC, state, and customers jumping all over us if we were down for more than a day let alone 4.   Quoted: Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like 4 days, not one month. +1

Apparently dealing with the state just takes more time.
Just what do all those state worker do, anyway?

Infringement plain and simple................a defacto waiting period

Trust me on this, they need all the time they can get.

I thought that if you were not approved in 3 days you could pick up your gun, approval or not.

Quoted: I thought that if you were not approved in 3 days you could pick up your gun, approval or not.

To stop you from getting around that they arent allowing anything to be sold

They ought to just shut it down from 9pm to 9am on 8 days in a row instead of all day for 4 days.

Quoted: They ought to just shut it down from 9pm to 9am on 8 days in a row instead of all day for 4 days.

Exactly how I do upgrades.

THE NICS phone is answered in WV.

Is PA a state with 2 background phonecalls needed, state and Fed?

thats some screwed up shit.....Whos background info does PA SP use?....the FBI's out of their WV complex more than likely.

Quoted: OK, OK, my bad. Edited and fixed. Geez, shoulda just left it in the PA forum.

And fix your damn roads too.


Christ, driving on the fucking moon has less holes.

Quoted: Quoted: OK, OK, my bad. Edited and fixed. Geez, shoulda just left it in the PA forum. And fix your damn roads too. Christ, driving on the fucking moon has less holes.

Quoted: Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like 4 days, not one month.

It's a fourtnight, which is like half a month.

Quoted: THE NICS phone is answered in WV. Is PA a state with 2 background phonecalls needed, state and Fed? thats some screwed up shit.....Whos background info does PA SP use?....the FBI's out of their WV complex more than likely.

I was wondering about that too. What's the reason the state police give for shutting down the system?

In PA, the state police runs the background checks for gun purchases. Its called PICS. Basically, the state police runs the checks through NICS for the dealers, and also run the state database as well. As far as the three-day thing, it is non-existent in PA. You MUST get a "Proceed" to transer a gun. This is why the dealers can't use the regular NICS during this time period.

Knowing how things run in this state, I can see this actually taking 4 weeks, instead of 4 days.