NICS Holiday Hours

November 22, 2022

Good morning,

We’d like to share a message we received from NICS regarding their holiday hours:

This year for the Thanksgiving holiday, the NICS Contracted Call Center (NCCC) will operate on normal business hours for both Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022, and Black Friday, November 25, 2022. Normal hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. Eastern Time (ET).

Due to the Christmas holiday, the NCCC will be closed beginning at 6 p.m. ET on December 24, 2022, and will be back in operation at 8 a.m. ET on December 26, 2022.

For your convenience, all electronic background check submissions, including the NICS E-Check and XML traffic, will be available 24/7, to include Christmas Day.

Please understand, we try to handle all incoming transactions as efficiently as possible; however, it is not always possible to avoid hold times on the telephone. In addition, our current phone system processes incoming calls on a first in, first handled basis. There is no need for a Federal Firearm Licensee (FFL) to contact the NCCC from a second phone line while on hold for the initial call as this will not expedite service.

In the unlikely event of a NICS outage between 6 p.m. Christmas Eve through Christmas Day, the system will remain unavailable until 8 a.m. Monday, December 26, 2022.

“Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin

“The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, “The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed.” And they wonder why we’re a bit testy”

Editor of KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

“You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you’ll find me in a pile of brass.”

Tpr. M. Padgett

“Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol.”

Lori Broadhead

“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”

Ted Nugent

The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe or to prevent the people of the United States from keeping their own arms.”

Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

Thomas B. Reed (1886)

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)

“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution THEY don’t like.”

Alan Dershowitz

“Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.”

Sen. Larry Craig

“The AK-47 is not a device of aggression … I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,”

NICS Holiday Hours

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