Pudge
..."Well, being that 100% of FBI NICS transactions are immediately given a determination of Proceed, Delay or Denied......what is your point?"
According to the FBI, 8% of the NICS applications do not receive an immediate determination:
Sorry, it should have read "Well, being that 100% of FBI NICS transactions are immediately given a
status of Proceed, Delay or Denied....
I do have a question. You say that there are three responses: Proceed, Delay, or Deny, but the flow chart the FBI provided indicates that all the denials came from the delay group. Do they give immediate denials, or is the flow chart correct and all the denials come from the delay group (which would mean there are only 2 answers Proceed and Delay)?
When calling the FBI NICS, the initial call is answered by a customer service rep. The CSR asks the dealer for certain information on the buyer as well as type of firearm. Then gives the dealer a NTN (NICS Transaction Number) followed by either "This transaction may proceed" or "This transaction requires further review...I will now transfer you to a NICS Examiner".
The call is forwarded to an FBI Legal Document Examiner who is authorized to review the records that were returned from the check on the buyers name. The examiner asks for the NTN and the buyers name and says "please hold while I review". Usually within 20-30 seconds they are back and will tell the dealer:
"Transaction number ABCD-123 may Proceed"
or
"Transaction number ABCD-123 is Denied"
or
"Transaction number ABCD-123 will be Delayed while NICS conducts additional research. The Brady Law does not prohibit the transfer of the firearm on
(gives day and date).
It is possible that NICS:
-never calls back with a status update,
-they call back with "Proceed",
-they call back with "Denied".
Of the Denied transactions I've had, three were immediately Denied, three were Delays that changed to Denials within a day.
NICS used to allow dealers to call back to check for status updates on Delays, but stopped allowing that about three years ago.