Washington State Gun Sales Have Been Shut Down For 12 Days And Counting
The truth about guns ^ | 11 13 2024 | Mark Chesnut
Posted on 11/14/2024 4:17:05 PM PST by yesthatjallen
In the United States of America, with the Second Amendment protecting our natural right to keep and bear arms, one would think that computer difficulties wouldn’t stop gun sales in an entire state for nearly two weeks.
Alas, one would be wrong.
Since November 1, nobody has been able to legally purchase a firearm in Washington State because of a computer system in the state’s Secure Automated Firearms E-Check (SAFE) system being “compromised.” That’s the program through which Washington conducts its background checks, instead of just going through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) system.
When employees realized the system had been “compromised” on November 1 (they won’t say what that means), rather than figuring out how to fix it or putting some standby system into place, they immediately shut it down, making it impossible for gun dealers to run background checks for purchases. Since private sales are outlawed in the state, that effectively shut down all legal gun buying and selling.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; washington
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To: yesthatjallen
This is when you ignore the State Laws and do as you need to do.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 4:19:49 PM PST by dpetty121263
To: yesthatjallen
Why not just use the standard FBI system, like almost every other state does?
3 posted on 11/14/2024 4:20:33 PM PST by matt04 ( )
To: yesthatjallen
Since November 1, nobody has been able to legally purchase a firearm in Washington State because of a computer system in the state’s Secure Automated Firearms E-Check (SAFE) system being “compromised.”
This is a creative method to work around the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, the wheels of justice are slow.
To: yesthatjallen
private sales are outlawed?
has it been challenged?
5 posted on 11/14/2024 4:23:21 PM PST by joshua c
To: dpetty121263
Hypothetically, if, as an example, the system went down at say 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and they reported it would be down for the rest of the day. They were only be a two hour, or so, interruption in sales, I wouldn’t consider that a huge constitutional crisis, as long as it was communicated from the state with plans for the next day should the system not be brought up to allow sales, such as utilizing the FBI system directly, or some other solution. However, for it to be down over a week is simply unexcused usable with no workaround
6 posted on 11/14/2024 4:24:39 PM PST by matt04 ( )
To: joshua c
Like I said in these cases you MUST take the Law into your own hands.
7 posted on 11/14/2024 4:25:13 PM PST by dpetty121263
To: yesthatjallen
Curious that system crash is is about simultaneous to the election of Bob Ferguson (When you look up “lawfare”, you see Ferguson)
8 posted on 11/14/2024 4:25:52 PM PST by llevrok (No 4th Obama term!)
To: joshua c
I would assume there’s various legal challenges about private sales, etc. In these Democrat run states it just takes years and years for them to wind other ways through the court, when the Democrat run states have nearly unlimited piles of cash to throw at these unconstitutional laws to try to defend them.
It may not be currently challenged in one state, but another state may have something in federal court going on that. They are waiting for to see how that goes, etc.
9 posted on 11/14/2024 4:26:03 PM PST by matt04 ( )
To: All
I expect more systems will become ‘compromised’ in other states that have their own systems, and maybe even the Feds system will soon become ‘compromised’. For sure it would be had Harris won.
10 posted on 11/14/2024 4:26:32 PM PST by LegendHasIt
To: matt04
Well I am in Arkansas and 2nd AD is fully practiced as we have CCW and Open Carry both and with a CCW you do not need to go through any FBI check, pay and go...Blue States are so screwed up People in those States get what they deserve as elections have consequences.
To: matt04
Word is Trump and Congress are going to pass a CCW national reciprocity law so none of these Blue states can prevent a CCW permit.
To: yesthatjallen
The same old computer that “counts” the ballots ?
13 posted on 11/14/2024 4:38:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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