Or, “no thug left behind”

I had some coin burning a hole in my pocket, so I tooled on over to a nearby gun store to browse around and see if anything caught my eye. There were a number of 1911’s I pawed over, but I didn’t have that much spare change. I did find a snubnose Ruger SP-101 with a bobbed hammer in the case at a good price. I’ve had two SP-101’s before; I’d buy one, keep it for a while, decide I really didn’t need it and sell it, then wish I had it again and start the cycle over. So, I said I’d take it and went up to the counter to fill out the paperwork. I had my CCW in my hand when the clerk said he didn’t need it.

Apparently, the ATF has decided that Georgia’s CCW doesn’t meet the requirements for waiver of the “instant” background check provision of the Brady Bill any longer, and that they’d have to do the check anyway. *sigh* Whatever. I haven’t got a record, haven’t been judged “mentally unstable”, don’t have any domestic violence charges. However, every time I submit one of these “instant” checks it takes forever. Someone out there apparently fits my description and they have to check files by hand.

So, of course, I’m told my check is “delayed” and I’ll have to wait until Thursday for it to come back. If I was going to rob a liquor store or shoot my spouse, I’m sure I could find someone else willing to sell me a gun without the check… never mind that I’ve had countless background checks run on me in the past, through working in law enforcement and two run by the FBI when I became a bomb tech. Someday I’m going to run across whoever it is with a similar sounding name and description and a criminal record and haul him up to the ATF to show that no, I’m not him.

ADDENDUM: I noticed that the links to my fiction stuff and the Juuhoukata book-in-progress were relative instead of absolute, so you got a 404 error. They’ve been fixed; the fiction stuff is here.