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A note from the wild side. But wait, might there be more?
Reading through the 10 February issue of Gun Week, one found on page 3 thereof, reference to, and an article dealing with something called Voluntary Appeal File (VAF).
Due to the fact that the FBI sometimes gets confused regarding the names and dates of birth of law abiding types and "prohibited persons", problems develop. In particular, when the former make application to exercise a constitutional right, get your mind around that, the good guy's "purchase application" is sometimes denied entirely or significantly delayed, notwithstanding the hoopla about "Instant Background Checks." Obviously, the FBI and the State Police in Point of Contact States, have a serious problem here. What to do.
Common sense would say, fix the problem, wouldn't it? After all, the good guy has already jumped through all the hoops outlined in the law, poor thing that some claim it is. Not good enough for the bureaucrats, who never made anything simpler, when there was the option for making that thing more complicated. Ergo comes VAF, a new addition to the alphabet soup that is government. Why should "we" the bureaucrats, simplify anything or fix an existing problem, when "we" can make those law abiding types jump through more hoops? Obviously, "we" shouldn't, and "we" won't. So with VAF, come more and likely new forms to be completed, and if that weren't enough, under the aegis of VAF, the FBI is permitted to maintain information and or records dealing with the law-abiding purchaser, that current law precludes them from maintaining.
Additionally, some new and possibly expensive job titles appear to have been created in connection with this VAF business. One is a Call Center Representative, to whom the UPIN, read the article to see more on this, must be given. Another is the FBI NICS Section Customer Service person or persons, who also get into the act. How many taxpayers dollars will these new titles be anointed with, in addition to all the taxpayers dollars that already have been showered on this background check program, a program that still seemingly has problems.
Don't worry your little heads about the foregoing, for its all "Kosher", or so it is claimed. After all, "Pursuant to the Final Rule enacted on July 20, 2004, by the Department of Justice in The Federal Register, Volume 60, Number 141, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Instant Check System's (NICS) Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) has been established".
If you are so damned dumb as to have failed to carefully read through the referenced issue of The Federal Register, whose fault is that? Do you mean to say that such interesting items as are "published" in The Federal Register are not widely publicized, why shame on media, and perhaps shame on you too. I'll just bet that you fail to read through the Legal Notices in your daily paper too.
Reading through the 10 February issue of Gun Week, one found on page 3 thereof, reference to, and an article dealing with something called Voluntary Appeal File (VAF).
Due to the fact that the FBI sometimes gets confused regarding the names and dates of birth of law abiding types and "prohibited persons", problems develop. In particular, when the former make application to exercise a constitutional right, get your mind around that, the good guy's "purchase application" is sometimes denied entirely or significantly delayed, notwithstanding the hoopla about "Instant Background Checks." Obviously, the FBI and the State Police in Point of Contact States, have a serious problem here. What to do.
Common sense would say, fix the problem, wouldn't it? After all, the good guy has already jumped through all the hoops outlined in the law, poor thing that some claim it is. Not good enough for the bureaucrats, who never made anything simpler, when there was the option for making that thing more complicated. Ergo comes VAF, a new addition to the alphabet soup that is government. Why should "we" the bureaucrats, simplify anything or fix an existing problem, when "we" can make those law abiding types jump through more hoops? Obviously, "we" shouldn't, and "we" won't. So with VAF, come more and likely new forms to be completed, and if that weren't enough, under the aegis of VAF, the FBI is permitted to maintain information and or records dealing with the law-abiding purchaser, that current law precludes them from maintaining.
Additionally, some new and possibly expensive job titles appear to have been created in connection with this VAF business. One is a Call Center Representative, to whom the UPIN, read the article to see more on this, must be given. Another is the FBI NICS Section Customer Service person or persons, who also get into the act. How many taxpayers dollars will these new titles be anointed with, in addition to all the taxpayers dollars that already have been showered on this background check program, a program that still seemingly has problems.
Don't worry your little heads about the foregoing, for its all "Kosher", or so it is claimed. After all, "Pursuant to the Final Rule enacted on July 20, 2004, by the Department of Justice in The Federal Register, Volume 60, Number 141, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Instant Check System's (NICS) Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) has been established".
If you are so damned dumb as to have failed to carefully read through the referenced issue of The Federal Register, whose fault is that? Do you mean to say that such interesting items as are "published" in The Federal Register are not widely publicized, why shame on media, and perhaps shame on you too. I'll just bet that you fail to read through the Legal Notices in your daily paper too.
