Skipping the NICS with an HGP?

[coinboy]

I've been watching some videos lately and they have suggested that one with a state handgun permit can list their permit on the NICS form and no actual NICS check has to be performed because your permit is the check.

Anyone know if this is true and applicable in Maryland?

I'm assuming not for pistols but how about rifles?

 

[swinokur]

Not acceptable in MD

 

[ken792]

That only applies for permits the ATF has certified as compliant. I’d imagine state authorities have to apply to ATF for the status.

Permanent Brady Permit Chart | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Prepared by: ATF Office of Enforcement Programs and Services Last updated: August 10, 2023 Note: Notwithstanding the dates set forth below, permits qualify as alternatives to the background check requirements of the Brady law for no more than 5 years from the date of issuance. The permit must be...

www.atf.gov

 

[lazarus]

That only applies for permits the ATF has certified as compliant. I’d imagine state authorities have to apply to ATF for the status.

Permanent Brady Permit Chart | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Prepared by: ATF Office of Enforcement Programs and Services Last updated: August 10, 2023 Note: Notwithstanding the dates set forth below, permits qualify as alternatives to the background check requirements of the Brady law for no more than 5 years from the date of issuance. The permit must be...

www.atf.gov

No, it is beyond that. The Brady bill leaves it up to the states if the state wishes to allow their carry permit holders to skip NICS. IIRC somewhere around a third to half of states allow their residents to skip NICS with a carry permit. You can guess which half don't allow their residents to skip NICS with a carry permit...

 

[Hibs]

Does not apply in Maryland.

I routinely use that method to buy handguns and rifles in Texas. God Bless Texas.

 

[John from MD]

I've been watching some videos lately and they have suggested that one with a state handgun permit can list their permit on the NICS form and no actual NICS check has to be performed because your permit is the check.

Anyone know if this is true and applicable in Maryland?

I'm assuming not for pistols but how about rifles?

Some States do it this way. No Marylandistan.

 

[outrider58]

It should, but it doesn't because that would remove a bit of pain from an applicant and Merryland could not allow that.

 

[rtmhunter]

The "Free State" could never allow that much freedom to any individual that was not a politician.

 

[adit]

Applies in DE, for now.

 

[press1280]

Applies in WV also.

 

[bcr229]

No, it is beyond that. The Brady bill leaves it up to the states if the state wishes to allow their carry permit holders to skip NICS. IIRC somewhere around a third to half of states allow their residents to skip NICS with a carry permit. You can guess which half don't allow their residents to skip NICS with a carry permit...

States have to apply for it and states have to comply with the federal requirements, one of which is to run all permit holders run through NICS regularly (IIRC monthly).

Also be aware some FFL's will still run NICS even if the transferee has a permit.

 

[TheBert]

I've been watching some videos lately and they have suggested that one with a state handgun permit can list their permit on the NICS form and no actual NICS check has to be performed because your permit is the check.

Anyone know if this is true and applicable in Maryland?

I'm assuming not for pistols but how about rifles?

Your status with respect to all of the databases that are checked needs to be performed each and every time you purchase. You may have become a felon or ineligible in between your last purchase and your current purchase and if they relied upon a document you obtained 9 years ago they could miss a lot of things.

 

[Mike OTDP]

Maybe this is something to press for next year. We need to start taking the offensive.

 

[Bob A]

Maybe this is something to press for next year. We need to start taking the offensive.

Now, that's funny.

Maryland loosening any possible restriction/requirement? Not gonna happen without POTUS calling in the National Guard to escort the MD GA to prison for sedition.

 

[outrider58]

Now, that's funny.

Maryland loosening any possible restriction/requirement? Not gonna happen without POTUS calling in the National Guard to escort the MD GA to prison for sedition.

Wurd...

 

[Rockzilla]

In SC. they ask if you have a "CWP" when you purchase..saves so much time.
We are waiting on our "CWP's" to come, meantime it's "DL" fill out forms, pay
n go.
-Rock

 

[6-Pack]

Now, that's funny.

Maryland loosening any possible restriction/requirement? Not gonna happen without POTUS calling in the National Guard to escort the MD GA to prison for sedition.

They did drop the shell casing requirement for new handguns and the fingerprints for HGP renewals. I’m still shocked years later (and those were very minimal gains).