FBI Sued Over Failure To Process NICS Appeals

By Tom Knighton

From time to time, a law-abiding citizen will find themselves denied on a NICS check. There are plenty of reasons this happens. Maybe a criminal has a similar name, or maybe one was using the law-abiding person’s identity when arrested. Whatever the reason, the individual in question has never been convicted of a crime or anything else that should bar them from purchasing a firearm, yet here they are. Denied.

That means they need to appeal the denial. They want that fixed, so they don’t have to deal with such a problem in the future. I don’t blame them.

However, it seems the FBI has been a little reluctant to do much of anything about it.

Now, a lawsuit is underway to try and force the Bureau’s hand on the matter.

“Today we filed suit against the Attorney General, USA and the FBI for more NICS denials,” Stamboulieh Law, PLLC, announced in a Tuesday press release. “After it was reported that the FBI stopped processing firearms denials in early 2016, we filed a FOIA [request] for that information. It was recently received.”

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“[T]he Defendants and FBI in particular, is improperly shifting their burden to the individual to follow up …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms