Reminder: NICS Call Center Hours For Dec. 24, 2016

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- The NICS Section would like to remind you of a change in the hours for the NICS Contracted Call Centers (NCCC) on December 24, 2016.

Due to the Christmas holiday, the NCCC will be closed beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on December 24, 2016, and will be back in operation at 8:00 a.m. ET on December 26, 2016.

For your convenience, the NICS E-Check will still be available after 8:00 p.m. ET on December 24, 2016.

In case you have not yet enrolled to use the NICS E-Check, please consider taking this important step to register. The NICS E-Check allows you to conduct firearm background checks over the Internet 24/7 and provides many benefits you do not receive from the NCCC.

Please understand that we try to handle all incoming transactions as efficiently as possible; however, it is not always possible to avoid hold times on the telephone. In addition, our current phone system processes incoming calls on a first in, first handled basis.

There is no need for an FFL to contact the NCCC from a second phone line while on hold for …Read the Rest

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