5 sue feds over wrongful NICS denials, sluggish appeal process

By Chris Eger

Five plaintiffs who have been refused guns or suppressors due to a stagnant background check appeal process are taking the federal government to court over the matter.
The men, who live in Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi and Texas, argue they were incorrectly refused a firearm through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System but the FBI hasn’t moved to process appeals since 2015, effectively making it impossible to lawfully purchase a gun, denying their Second Amendment rights. As such, they filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. federal court naming the FBI and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session as defendants.
“The FBI needs to start processing these appeals timely,” one of the men’s attorneys, Stephen Stamboulieh, told Guns.com in an email. “If this was a voting issue the entire country would be up in arms, but since it’s just a Second Amendment issue no one cares.”
Some of the plaintiffs have been in limbo for years, and worse, they don’t know why. Daniel Umbert, a Florida man who tried to buy a suppressor last August is not prohibited from possessing a firearm under federal or state law but was denied in a letter that gave no specific reason.
Another man, who was charged

Source: Guns.com