NICS was temporarily out of service this morning

TheĀ Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check system was down for about an hour this morning due to a system upgrade over the weekend.

ā€œAĀ major system upgrade was implemented yesterday (Sunday) to one of the FBI’s databases. It did cause some issues yesterday and the NICS was out of service for a few hours yesterday morning. Some issues persist with one of the databases that the NICS relies upon to conduct background checks,ā€Ā saidĀ FBI spokeswoman Jill Montgomery via email. ā€œBecause of such, we have had the NICS out of service this morning as well.ā€

ā€œThe NICS is expected to be out of service for approximately 30 minutes this morning.Ā  We appreciate your patienceĀ on SundayĀ and apologize for any inconvenience,ā€Ā 

Early estimates put the delay at a half hour, but from the time of notification to solution was more like an hour.

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