How quick does the DROS denial/approv come back?

[P7Collector]

Started the DROS yesterday, wanna call them back and see if it was approved, will they know yet?

[rips31]

the nics check should be within a couple of hours. the kali part could take some time. my guess would be a couple of days?

[bear308]

because of all the cali crap they look at the cali one takes a while, you won't get a straight answer until your wait is up and by then you could just go to the store and pick up the gun. No news is good news on this one.

[P7Collector]

Got ya, well I guess I'll just wait. Had some thing taken off my record with DOJ, just want to make sure everything got taken care of and I can DROS legally now

[EBWhite]

One day i was in gunrunners and i saw a huge huge stack of denial letters. Looks like they mail them over so im thinking 5 days after start of dros. Most letters say b/c of expired drivers license ....

[rips31]

interesting. my ffls tell me that they'd call me if it got denied. pretty cool, tho, if you get a letter saying why.

[bear308]

we always got calls or faxes for denials, but we were kind of a low volume dealer.

[xenophobe]

A denial or hold... usually between 4-7 days. DOJ will call and also send out a letter. There have been a couple instances where they took longer, and on occassion they'll place a hold on someone until they can clear things up.

[kantstudien]

You are not told that you are "approved." The dealer is notified if you are denied however. Many times, this will happen between days 11-30.
Good Job DOJ!

[kantstudien]

One day i was in gunrunners and i saw a huge huge stack of denial letters....

They are not mailed, they were simply printed out by Gunrunners from the DOJ DROS website. Sounds like Gunrunnners caters to gang-banga wannabes or something if they had a huge stack.

[ghostrider4evr]

i was denied once due to a discrepancy with my license. My FFL called me less than 24 hours after I DROS'd the firearm and said I would have to clear up the issue and then re-DROS.

[edwardm]

the nics check should be within a couple of hours. the kali part could take some time. my guess would be a couple of days?

Uh. California is a NICS clearinghouse state, meaning (from what I can tell on the NICS site, and from calling CalDOJ today), that CA runs you, not NICS. CA does a state and a Federal check. No other agency gets involved for a normal DROS. Did I get bum info from the Firearms folks today?

[CSkyhawk72]

I was told that you'd know within 24-48 hours.

.. does anybody here know if you'd be denied for failing to appear for jury duty? I'm not sure if stuff like that shows up on your background check...

[rips31]

Uh. California is a NICS clearinghouse state, meaning (from what I can tell on the NICS site, and from calling CalDOJ today), that CA runs you, not NICS. CA does a state and a Federal check. No other agency gets involved for a normal DROS. Did I get bum info from the Firearms folks today?

according to the nics website, kali is a full-poc. meaning, kali runs its own version of nics that accesses the federal nics database. when you dros, your ffl contacts a kali agency (prob ca doj) who will access nics for your ffl, in addition to checking the kali database for anything you might have done in-state that does not show up (yet) on the federal nics. in most other states, ffl's contact the federal nics directly.

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics.htm

so, your fed nics check will be known very soon. it's the digging thru the kali records that may take some time. at least, this is how i read the site and how my ffl explained the whole process to me.

[MicronuT]

They are not mailed, they were simply printed out by Gunrunners from the DOJ DROS website. Sounds like Gunrunnners caters to gang-banga wannabes or something if they had a huge stack.

youd be real suprised at the number of returns we get regarding people who are deputies/ cops ... etc.. i dont think you understand the process.. you dont have to be a felon to get denied.. most times its only temporary