{"id":3310,"date":"2012-05-08T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/05\/08\/ccrkba-weighs-in-on-60-hour-shutdown-of\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:27","slug":"ccrkba-weighs-in-on-60-hour-shutdown-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"CCRKBA Weighs In On 60-Hour Shutdown Of Gun Sales In Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15833,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pagunblog.com\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/02\\\/why-we-need-to-get-rid-of-pics&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15834,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ccrkba.org\\\/?p=2865&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ccrkba.org\\\/?p=2865&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>If you are a regular reader of Sebastian and Bitter at Shall Not Be Questioned you already know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2012\/05\/02\/why-we-need-to-get-rid-of-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania State Police are shutting down their Pennsylvania Instant Check System<\/a> (PICS) for upgrades to their computer system. As a result, there can be no firearms transactions from the evening of May 19th through the morning of May 22nd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccrkba.org\/?p=2865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I think Alan Gottlieb of the CCRKBA<\/a> is one the mark when he says that a) there are alternatives to shutting down the whole system and b) the PA State Police need to get out of this business and leave it to the FBI with NICS.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 A complete shutdown of the Pennsylvania Instant Check System by the state police for a period of 60 hours later this month for a system upgrade is \u201cinexcusable,\u201d the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosing down the background check system, and thus suspending all firearms transactions and concealed carry license processing simply allows the Pennsylvania State Police to obstruct the gun rights of law-abiding citizens,\u201d said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cWe are not reassured by a promise from the agency that it will expedite this computer system update in order to restore service as soon as possible. Access to the computers for background checks should not be suspended at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe State Police can find alternate means of processing firearms transactions and permit applications while the upgrade is in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The system is scheduled for update from 10 p.m. Saturday, May 19 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 22. Gottlieb said this highlights a problem with such systems when there is no backup. Authorities can literally suspend the Second Amendment by turning off a switch or pulling a plug, he observed, and use whatever excuse they want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in an age when computer upgrades should be accomplished considerably faster,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cLocking down such a vital system that is important to so many Pennsylvania residents for 60 hours is not an \u2018inconvenience,\u2019 it\u2019s an outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keystone State gun owners will hold their 7th annual Second Amendment Liberty rally tomorrow, May 8 on the main steps in the capitol rotunda. This would be a grand opportunity for firearms owners to contact their state legislators, and the governor\u2019s office, to express their dissatisfaction over the PICS problem, he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the last time this happened in 2007, Pennsylvania gun owners have been pushing for an end to the PICS system,\u201d Gottlieb noted. \u201cIt is time to put the State Police out of the background check business, and turn over this important job to the NICS system operated by the FBI. They do their upgrades faster, and they deal with the entire country.\u201d<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a regular reader of Sebastian and Bitter at Shall Not Be Questioned you already know that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[919,657,3809],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nics-checks","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pics-checks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}