Care to enlighten us how many folks pass the NICS but fail the MSP background check each year?
That information was asked for back in 2014 or 2015, it worked out to be about 3% of all regulated purchases.
Care to enlighten us how many folks pass the NICS but fail the MSP background check each year?
There were 70+ firearms released on 8th day that had to be retrieved by MSP, 4 were used in crimes. Those dealers are still in business today with absolutely no issues from 2013.
Yes, there are a number of Maryland Only disqualifiers . We had a recent thread here from someone who registered his handguns upon moving in get cought up by this .
Flashback 2013 - MSP LD threatened in person dealers that if they did " Timely Release " , they would audit them continually until they found a minor tranposition , and imeadately revoke their RWDL .
MSI sued , and MSP pre trial settled by issuing a letter that the practice Was Legal , and that they would not retaliate for following the law .
But that was then , and now is ???
There were some LGSs in 2013 who found a middle ground between releasing after 8 days based on no response, and waiting forever to hear from MSP. They came up with reasonable criteria that provided evidence you were likely not a prohibited person.
Things like showing a receipt for a firearm purchase within a certain amount of time (say, last 6 mo, or 1 year); recently issued designated collector letter; having a CC permit from MD or another state; or having an active duty military ID.
The first three would show you had passed a background check, the last would show you had not recently been convicted of a felony level offense (since if so, you would be in custody, having surrendered your ID, or had already received punishment and been outprocessed from the military with DD or other-than-honorable and would not possess an ID).
I can live with that. MSP should suck less and get off their butts to do the job the legislature has tasked them with.
Does anyone not trust the timing of this?
Middle of a riot filled national pandemic where gun sales are up a bagillion percent and that just happens to be when the MSP has a hardware failure?
Isn't this stuff all web based anyway?
Maybe I have lived in Maryland too long (working on fixing that) and become too cynical. But this sounds more intentional than not
Here's what I remember. Someone will obviously correct me: Many years ago, well before 2013, the MSP was running routinely 15 days for "Not Disapproved". They were also leaning on dealers that life would be tougher if they released in accordance with the law. Some dealer got fed up and started releasing. The SUN got word and spun it around, "The poor MSP is underfunded and overworked and just trying to keep us safe. Now this gunshop is letting criminals have guns." I recall a lawsuit, that got dismissed when the MSP promised to speed up the process.
Since the current advisory gives detailed instructions on how to release on time, I don't see how the LGS could be yanked around too much. But I'm not a dealer and it doesn't affect my bottom line.
MSP is not conducting secondary sales at this time.
With all the lawsuits flying around, it's hard to blame dealers. What i've found is if you deal with the same dealer over time you build trust and get a pass on some issues. If your a first time buyer or infequent buyer the dealers usually error on the safe side, which means keep it in the safe until it clears.
Today was my 8TH day and my gun shop said nope can't release the gun to you sorry.I said so the large header at the top of the MSP site means nothing answer was yup. Not very happy.
Not only no, but the state admitted in a lawsuit that the there is no liability to the dealer/transferer, if a disapproved comes back.
I'm starting to hear rumblings and rumors that our data has been compromised. Can someone please confirm this? It does have all of the hallmarks of a serious attack. I'm just wondering what the extent of it is? How much info did the hackers retrieve? All of it? I knew this day would come and I knew it wasn't a good idea to have all of our data stored on State Government owned computers. This is complete and utter B.S.