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Sheldon Martin[_4_]

wrote:
>> On Sunday, August 23, 2020 Sheldon wrote:
>>>
>>> Every state is different, in NY a background check is required for
>>> buying a shotgun. The dealer has a phone number to call, gives the
>>> info, and takes about an hour to hear the results of the check. Felons
>>> won't be approved but then they would buy off grid.
>>>
>> I would have thought New York would be more advanced than that. Here,
>> your information is entered online and the information is received back
>> to the gun dealer in a matter of 10 minutes or less. If you already
>> have a gun permit and you're 'clean' the results take less than 5 minutes.
>> For a replacement pistol, it took no time for my background check to come
>> back clean.

There's no permit required for a shotgom and this was not my first
one. I suppose it could depend on which part of NY and the particular
gun store. I don't live in NYC or any large city, I live in a very
rural part of NY State, at the perimeter of a very small village.
Often phone lines are overloaded as are the workers taking the
calls... not all parts of NYS are equally advanced electronically...
here we only recently got high speed lines and they are not really
very high speed... we were very lucky to get DISH not very long ago,
Cable TV was super slow and the TV service often went down at night
and on weekends when there was no one in their office to answer calls,
and most of their service techs are gone during hunting season.

The nearest gun shop here is in a family owned Hardware/Lumber store.
I didn't mind the short wait, it's an interesting store to look
around, and they sell a lot of items not available at Lowes/HomeDepot,
and have much better quality and service... the gun guy (who is also a
gunsmith) spent a lot of time helping me pick out the shotgun. They
also have better prices than the big sporting goods stores. I could
have gone to a larger fancier store if I felt like driving for an hour
but this was a three minute drive. The time I spent waiting was more
than saved in driving.