Dems are forcing a vote on a bill to block lawful gun purchases
(www.independentsentinel.com)
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Not following this article. Firstly (and maybe things are different in the lefty-er states), I've never had to wait more than 5 minutes to purchase a gun. I'm sure there are places this takes longer, but I'd wager most places don't have a 3 day wait period.
Second, in what world does 10 plus 10 equal 30? There's a 10 day wait, followed by a 10 day appeal. That's not a month.
Now, don't get me wrong-every bill passed by Dems anymore SHOULD be cause for complete and total civil war, but this article is sketchy.
Edit:. Missed the "Business days" comment. I still hold that three day wait is unique at least in south west PA.
Depending on the year, months typically have between 19 and 21 business days. If the ATF can spend 10 business days conducting the background check and then another 10 business days conducting an appeal, it is actually very possible that those 20 days will stretch out over a calendar month. If a purchaser wastes even one day in between his initial denial and the appeal, then you get to 21 and it is an entire calendar month.
The Background Check Form is only valid for 30 calendar days after it is submitted. Let's say you bought a gun on Dec 18 of last year, after business hours. It's Christmas week, you want to get a present for yourself. Your background check form will expire on January 17. There are 18 business days that separate the purchase date and the background check form expiration. That's because you have Christmas, New Years, Martin Luther King Day, and four weekends in between those dates. If you bought a gun Christmas week, the ATF would be able to technically run out the process so long that even if they approved you after a 20 business day process, you would have to start all over.
So let's say you go back to the gun store two days later on a Friday after work. You submit another Form 4473 and start the process over again. The FBI again uses all 10 days to give you an initial rejection. But when you get your rejection on Friday Feb 5, it comes in at the end of the day and you can't submit your appeal same-day. Well, the FBI doesn't start working appeals on weekends, so the earliest you'd be able to submit it would be the 8th. OOPS, President's day is a Federal Holiday, so even if the FBI begins processing your appeal the same day it is received, the 10 business days would bring you to Feb 22nd. Unfortunately, that is again one calendar day after your background check form expired.
It goes on and on and on and on...
When you incorporate holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, two of the most popular holidays for gun purchasing, it is easy to see how millions of firearm purchases per year could fall into this kind of limbo. If the bill were to pass and the ATF were to use all 20 of it's business days to stall gun purchases, they could indefinitely block a lot of gun purchases.