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I was reviewing the OSPs FICS 2022 Annual report (FICS 2022 Unit Overview) and thought I would pass on a few details and comments. Overall the volume of background checks in 2022 was up from last year, but still less than 2020. (2020 at 418,061 and 2022 at 393,868). What I find interesting is they never explicitly state how much of those get thu on "Instant check". It is implied that it is 38 percent as they state "on the average 38 percent of the requests received will process automatically." They say that every year with the same number, so I dunno how much credibility to give it, and I am assuming that means "Instant check", but then they never do explicitly state that. With 3 of the FFLs in 3 different gun dealers I have dealt with recently, each indicate the numbers getting thru are not that high, but that's a limited sample on my part.
The daily average of checks submitted ranged from a low of 521 on Mondays to a high average of 1,373 on Fridays. And then the biggie, Black Friday had 6055 in 2022!! They do not show the difference between prior to the 2022 election and post election submittals but I can get that from national data.
What is interesting; and perhaps not a surprise to anyone here, of those placed in the pending category (not instant) 48 percent took longer that 2 months to process. OSP defines anything that is not "instant goes to the pend or delay category "A background check will be placed in a "pend" or "delay" status when an approve or deny determination cannot be completed instantly," It would be interesting if they would discuss why the Oregon process is so inefficient compared to the direct FFL to NICS process that most States use that achieve an "Immediate Determination Rate" of 90 percent and roughly 98 percent within 3 days.
They (OSP-Fics) do acknowledge that with the ballot measure114 passage a backlog resulted but they never state the volume of that backlog. Such as what it was at the end of 2022. We pretty much know that it was somewhere between 29,000 and 32,000 but we are not the audience for this report. What I find interesting is that in order to gratuitously pat themselves on the back, they mention that the backlog was reduced by 37 percent as of January 31, 2023. Even though this is a 2022 year report they bring in 2023 to put themselves in a better light. Background check submittals did drop off in January so that gave them a chance to catch up a bit.
From the national NICS data
Oregon monthly average January thru October 2022 roughly 33,000,
November 2022-91,661
December 2022-76,437
and January 2023-56,173.
The daily average of checks submitted ranged from a low of 521 on Mondays to a high average of 1,373 on Fridays. And then the biggie, Black Friday had 6055 in 2022!! They do not show the difference between prior to the 2022 election and post election submittals but I can get that from national data.
What is interesting; and perhaps not a surprise to anyone here, of those placed in the pending category (not instant) 48 percent took longer that 2 months to process. OSP defines anything that is not "instant goes to the pend or delay category "A background check will be placed in a "pend" or "delay" status when an approve or deny determination cannot be completed instantly," It would be interesting if they would discuss why the Oregon process is so inefficient compared to the direct FFL to NICS process that most States use that achieve an "Immediate Determination Rate" of 90 percent and roughly 98 percent within 3 days.
They (OSP-Fics) do acknowledge that with the ballot measure114 passage a backlog resulted but they never state the volume of that backlog. Such as what it was at the end of 2022. We pretty much know that it was somewhere between 29,000 and 32,000 but we are not the audience for this report. What I find interesting is that in order to gratuitously pat themselves on the back, they mention that the backlog was reduced by 37 percent as of January 31, 2023. Even though this is a 2022 year report they bring in 2023 to put themselves in a better light. Background check submittals did drop off in January so that gave them a chance to catch up a bit.
From the national NICS data
Oregon monthly average January thru October 2022 roughly 33,000,
November 2022-91,661
December 2022-76,437
and January 2023-56,173.
