Posted: 12/31/2015 10:36:00 AM EDT
The thought occurred to me the other day (while picking up a lower receiver  ) that I have no idea how NICS works. When you buy a gun in the store, and they call in a background check to NICS, what does that actually check? Criminal records showing if you have be convicted of a felony? Mental health records?
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Basically it wastes your time. They hope that it'll discourage you from actually buying a firearm. They think that in the time it takes for the NICS to come back you'll get fed up and decide not to buy whatever evil weapon you are there to buy. Quoted:
Basically it wastes your time. They hope that it'll discourage you from actually buying a firearm. They think that in the time it takes for the NICS to come back you'll get fed up and decide not to buy whatever evil weapon you are there to buy. It never takes more than a few minutes for me. Quoted:
They just ad another check mark next to your name. Lol, if thats the case then I'm really already marked for having a CHP. Shit, they got my fingerprints. 
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esentially your name is typed in to see if it generates a "hit" in one of the databases. an older but good video of how NICS works  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfpPyL8A0lMThanks, that explains it pretty well. |
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http://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ncis_season12_contracts.jpg They catch bad guys who do bad things to Navy & Marine personnel on Thursday nights. they did an episode on F&F it was pretty good...the director didn't hold to much back |
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http://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ncis_season12_contracts.jpg They catch bad guys who do bad things to Navy & Marine personnel on Thursday nights. Quoted:
http://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ncis_season12_contracts.jpg They catch bad guys who do bad things to Navy & Marine personnel on Thursday nights. Lol. Quoted:
It doesn't do shit when I buy a new gun. I have a Texas CHL and we're exempt from the NICS check. Same here now. |
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It never takes more than a few minutes for me. Lol, if thats the case then I'm really already marked for having a CHP. Shit, they got my fingerprints. Quoted:
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Basically it wastes your time. They hope that it'll discourage you from actually buying a firearm. They think that in the time it takes for the NICS to come back you'll get fed up and decide not to buy whatever evil weapon you are there to buy. It never takes more than a few minutes for me. Quoted:
They just ad another check mark next to your name. Lol, if thats the case then I'm really already marked for having a CHP. Shit, they got my fingerprints. I think the longest it ever took for me was an hour. Usually it's about 5-10 minutes. That one time it took an hour there were four people ahead of me in the store. |
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It acclimates you to the idea that you must obtain permission from the government before exercising your rights enjoying your privilege.
It also allows the government to populate its database which contains the names of gun owners. And people say the government is inefficient. |
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An entire building of people working a call center running names and unofficially ammending a database of law abiding Americans who purchase firearms so leftwing, antigun politicians can use that information at their discretion one day.. There, fixed that for you. 
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http://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ncis_season12_contracts.jpg They catch bad guys who do bad things to Navy & Marine personnel on Thursday nights. Dyslexia.... you have it |
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Dyslexia.... you have it Quoted:
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http://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ncis_season12_contracts.jpg They catch bad guys who do bad things to Navy & Marine personnel on Thursday nights. Dyslexia.... you have it Nuh-uh... |
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In Virginia, the system is called VCheck.
It takes information about the prospective purchaser/transferee (name, sex, DOB, POB, race, height, weight, plus SSN if you choose to provide it) and reduces you to a uniqueish pattern of about 500 zeros and ones (remember, computers only count from zero to one and back, but do so really fast). That unique pattern is then compared to:
Now think about the vastness of that digital world. It is an unfathomable number of zeros and ones, all manually created by hairless apes making shit wages working for the government tap, tap, tapping on keyboards all the live-long day. And your measly 500 or so zero/one unique pattern is compared to the entire set. For some lucky people, it happens in seconds. The vast majority of people in minutes. Unlucky souls like me, take days (and I am a federal firearms licensee!) Frankly, I am amazed by it. It is a singular achievement of computerized record management. That accomplishes almost NOTHING except making it slightly harder for criminals to get guns. Criminals still get guns and use them to do criminal stuff, but its not like they can walk into a store and buy one easily. |