Handgun Hotline is government waste!

In Wisconsin, we have a separate state agency, under the Wisconsin Department of Justice - Crime Information Bureau, that is charged with running background checks on handgun purchasers. In my research for my last post, I found this:

Thirteen states have agencies acting on behalf of the NICS in a full Point-Of-Contact (POC) capacity. These POC states, which have agreed to implement and maintain their own Brady NICS Program, conduct firearm background checks for FFLs' transactions in their respective states by electronically accessing the NICS. Upon completion of the required ATF Form 4473, the FFLs conducting business in the POC states contact a designated state agency to initiate a NICS background check in lieu of contacting the NICS Section.
Additionally, eight states are currently sharing responsibility with the NICS Section by acting as partial POCs. Partial-POC states have agencies designated to conduct checks for handguns and/or handgun permits, while the NICS Section handles the processing of the states transactions for long gun purchases.

Wisconsin is one of those eight states. So, we have built a bureaucracy simply to add a layer of red tape on top of the FBI NICS check which is already being used to do the actual work - a check our federal tax dollars already have paid for.

To add insult to injury, the Wisconsin DOJ requires $13 to be paid by the requester - me - a charge that gets passed on to my customers. For this $13, we get a paper record of the request and date of transfer, but no actual gun data.

What good is it to build a duplicate bureaucracy that has no useable data for gun grabbers, even?

We in Wisconsin need to press our elected servants to get rid of this. Gun dealers like me can simply use the NICS system an get the same results, our customers will save $13 on every check, and our state will save whatever it costs to pay the people who run the Handgun Hotline system, maintain all the records, and print all those nifty carbon-copy forms we are forced to fill out.