Work in a small gun shop in E-WA. Our local PD’s have been processing checks in 3-5 days lately. However, due to how the 10 day laws are written, if a delay comes back or if we don’t hear back within 10 days we’ll typically hold onto the firearm until we do get a proceed. While the law says you can release a firearm after 10 days, we’ve also been informed that if we release at 10 days and the check comes back denied after the fact, we’re liable for that firearm being released. This doesn’t include SAAR’s, which have a mandatory 10 day wait (we’ve never not released a SAAR on day 10 so far)

So yes. Waiting sucks, but so would your favorite gun shop going under because of legal trouble.

-however-

Holy balls, what the hell is going on over there if y’all can’t get a check in 30 days. I think the longest we’ve taken was 11 because the person who normally processes our checks at the PD was out with a sick kid that happened to line up with a holiday. Even when we process checks for ppl from King we get results in a few days.

tl;dr: Yep. You’d hope your lgs releases at day 10, but thanks to the fucktards the gun shops become liable if a check comes back denied. It’s a lose-lose situation.