ATF Audits Reveal 1-in-4 NH Gun Line Background Checks Are Wrong
By Ammoland
Opinion By Susan Olsen, Director of Legislation, Women’s Defense League of NH
New Hampshire – -(AmmoLand.com)- New Hampshire House Bill 109 – calling for Universal Background Checks for every purchase of a firearm – will wrongfully deny even more Granite Staters their rights! It is sponsored by NH Democrat Representative Katherine Rogers [yes, the same Democrat Rep who pleaded guilty to assault the day before Christmas 2017].
After Right to Know Requests were filed, the results of two federally conducted audits performed by the FBI’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, revealed that the NH Department of Safety’s “Gun Line” was repeatedly found guilty of:
- 1) Misuse of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS); and,
- 2) Entering “invalid” records in NICS
Out of a statistical sample – a SAMPLE – of 400 entries into NICS by the NH Gun Line, the ATF audits found that 128, a whopping 27.25%, were wrongly entered, and sent to NICS without valid documentation.*1,2
Bear in mind, the ACCEPTABLE “threshold” of error for one of these audits – called the “Integrity of NICS Index Records Policy” – …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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