Friday, February 04, 2022

GIGO

 The Virginia State Police entered every person into the NICS database with a PCA “J,” marking the potential gun buyer as federally prohibited. The 41,000 residents prohibited from buying a gun by state law should have been marked with a PCA “D.” The Virginia State Police software developers didn’t account for the difference in VA state law and federal law into consideration when coding the software. [More]

Hey, they caught the problem in a year. What could happen in that time?

[Via Jess]

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