Well considering it was 800 or so on a WORKDAY and the guy was (supposedly) shooting into a crowd of WORKING PEOPLE with most needing some sort of Security Clearance etc etc etc.
Of course we still have to give ‘them’ time to sort this out and figure if it was 1 or 2 or 3 or 40(s/) shooters and whether we should blame the Sequester, or someone didn’t want the Nats to play ball Mon Evening.
I still have trouble with believing the guy walked into a Gun Store/range in the last couple of days as a DC or TX resident and walked out the same day with a purchase.
I realize my last name is ‘fairly’ common but even as a long time CCP holder, and the purchaser of several pistols, I have yet been able to stand at the counter and be able to ‘wait’ for clearance. Always have had to - at the very least - wait a day or so.
I have absolutely NO record - with exception of traffic - so maybe that is why it ‘takes longer’????
Maybe it is ‘easier’ to buy a shotgun rather than a pistol.
The only background checks I underwent, were accomplished in less than an hour. I was at a gun show in each case, which should make it take longer, because there are more people buying guns on weekends. Now I have a CHL, and some of those exempt you from having to undergo the "instant" check. My state's does. I suspect it's your state check that's at issue. Somewhat before the Brady Law was passed, my father in law bought a pistol at a gun show in Nebraska. Nebraska required a firearm owners permit for purchase of pistols. They were issued by county sheriffs. The gun show was 20-30 miles from the county seat. The sheriff had deputies at the show, calling back to the Sheriff's office for the check, which I think was just the standard "wants and warrants" check, and the deputies issued the permits on the spot.