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Another SB 941 success story!
Parenthetically, this kind of reminds me of ATF's eForms system towards the end for Trusts (41F) being able to file Form1s. I managed to get one application in just over 48-hours before the deadline. I checked back several times during the last day and saw a myriad of error messages until it was replaced with a simple HTML page saying they didn't know when it was coming back.
This has me worried that if at any time we could have "outtages" in regards to FICS/NICS about how well it would be enforced or how long it would take for people to try and "fix" the problem. Look how reliant its made us upon something that could crap out at any moment. Also minimalist oversight in terms of quality put into both the process of collecting and the verification and integrity of the systems used. All we know is that we need it to buy and $10 of our money goes towards 30 some odd people sitting in an office somewhere saying Yes/No just so we can hope to ease minds about gun violence.
The system was down for 8:30hrs today.
by my prior figures 302,422 oregonians have a gun or have purchased within the last year.
Now lets say they are buying a street price of $500 for Gun "x", well ya can't buy it if FICS is down stalling sales since sales pend post FICS approval.
Include the $10 for FICS check.
10x302,422 = $3,024,220 lost in FICS alone. Of course this is Annually. But what if everyone of those people decided to go buy a gun that day same time.
From their unit overview:
Funding Including Core Services, the 2015-17 biennial budget for the Firearms program is $6.3 million total funds ($1 million General Fund related to Package 4002 Firearms staffing from the February 2016 session, $3 million Other Funds for the Firearms program, $2.3 million Other Funds for Core Services*). *Includes 2011-13 legislative policy decision to have the fee programs pay for a portion of Core Services. Core Services are comprised of the Automated Biometric Identification Systems (ABIS) and the Computerized Criminal History (CCH) programs.
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