ATF System Down?

[MeatyBacchus]

Went to the counter at a LGS and was told the ATF system is down.

He said he sold a couple guns early this morning, but since then it has been down.

Anyone else run into this?

 

[singlesix]

Was at Dick's and the person at the gun counter told a customer two hours to process the form.

 

[Colt556]

I always thought that this would be a way to control gun shows. Just shut the system down on the weekends. I know a lot of shops and other stores would be affected but the government doesn't care. Oh and I'm not advocating this in any way, just surprised they haven't done something like this yet.

 

[in625shooter]

I always thought that this would be a way to control gun shows. Just shut the system down on the weekends. I know a lot of shops and other stores would be affected but the government doesn't care. Oh and I'm not advocating this in any way, just surprised they haven't done something like this yet.

Yup your on to it!!!!!

I wouldn't seriously worry about that. Any server goes down from time to time, Banks, Credit Cards you name it. With the amount of sales of firearms why would they be any different.

 

[tom1025]

Yup your on to it!!!!!

I wouldn't seriously worry about that. Any server goes down from time to time, Banks, Credit Cards you name it. With the amount of sales of firearms why would they be any different.

That's my thoughts as well. I wonder how big the call center is?

 

[darinb]

just got back from my favorite shop and a minimum of 30 minute per form all day. I was going to bring another handgun home but I cant wait that long.

 

[gunman41mag]

PRIVATE SALE

 

[justjoe]

I've been selling guns at wally-world all day, 15 to 20 min wait to get to NICS operator, but haven't been down any.

 

[reno]

Heard that there were requests to call back, then a hold. but no one said it was down. I was at my favorite dealer twice today. He was swamped both times and the traffic was steady all day I guess. I think a year ago set a record for call ins, might have been busier today.

 

[PGRChaplain]

Black Friday Gun deals

 

[DownByTheTracks]

It was acting funny for a while. Seems fine now.

 

[LarryC]

If they had a counter on gun purchases now - wonder if it would be faster than the one counting the deficit?

 

[JetGirl]

Black Friday Gun deals

That's it right there^.

I had to keep dialing, dialing, dialing for 35 straight minutes to finally bypass the "We're sorry"/disconnect message to finally get to be on hold (in line) and wait for a chance to call some in.
In the time that I started dialing for one 4473, by the time I did get through I had a train of them on the counter lined up.

It was just a high volume day. I'm sure there were big sales all over the country at all the Ganders, Cabelas, Bass Pros, and the like... and the phone lines were likely overloaded with checks being called in.

 

[shooter521]

NICS was up and down intermittently all day; call volume had "all circuits busy". When one of us did get in, we would keep the operator on the phone until we had cleared our backlog of checks. I think we ended up with only two or three checks that will need to be called in tomorrow.

And we still set a sales record!

 

[Bennettjh]

Took me three hours to go through. Several other people had the same problem

 

[partyboy6686]

I was at the Stout Field Gun Show and wanted to purchase a couple rifles but was unable to since NICS was down. NICS cost the vendor $1000. He was pi$$ed.

 

[JetGirl]

I was at the Stout Field Gun Show and wanted to purchase a couple rifles but was unable to since NICS was down. NICS cost the vendor $1000. He was pi$$ed.

Like others have stated, it wasn't "down". It was a zillion people dialing in at the same time. NICS didn't cost the vendor $1000 sales...all the big box stores and their black Friday ads did.

 

[Spazzmodicus]

If the NICS system isn't functioning as designed then it is in essence "down". What normally takes 10 minutes was taking 2 to 4 hours for those that had the persistence to stick with it. A local gun store had wall to wall people today, some of them leaving and coming back hours later to complete the check, because of the NICS trainwreck.

 

[JetGirl]

If the NICS system isn't functioning as designed then it is in essence "down".

Generally, "down" is equated with "not working at all", when in fact it was just delayed service due to overload.

What normally takes 10 minutes was taking 2 to 4 hours for those that had the persistence to stick with it. A local gun store had wall to wall people today, some of them leaving and coming back hours later to complete the check

I'm just a teensy bit aware of that.

 

[griffin]

Went to the counter at a LGS and was told the ATF system is down.

The NICS call-in system or the e-check? The e-check is supposed to be up 24/7/365. Probably a lot faster, too.