Didn't the Feds "Fix NICS"?After Right to Know Requests were filed, the results of two federally conducted audits performed by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, 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 109, 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” – is 10%.
New Hampshire's Gun Line errors were nearly 3 times the acceptable 10% “integrity threshold” and the only recourse for persons affected is a lengthy and costly appeal process while the bureaucrats responsible for the error suffer no consequences at all.
It's a tough sell - that a government database would be misused to abuse a politically unfavorable sector of the public.