ATF Adding More NFA Branch Staff, Reducing Backlog, Re-Designing eForms System. Again.

[MoxyDave]

Story at The Truth About Guns

I didn't investigate the changes they mention but you have to wonder where the funding is suddenly coming from for this ... my guess is the NSA.

From the ATF letter: "Each Wednesday, a day selected based on use patterns and with the input of our customers, ATF will close the system for routine maintenance and processing."

As a computer expert, I am appalled by these numbers. In my industry an entire weekday of downtime is completely absurd.

When I was an Enterprise system administrator for the Air Force we were held to a standard of "Three Nines". This means 99.9% availability in any given time frame: High Availability on WikiPedia. This is a pretty common industry standard. 99.9% availability translates to 8.76 hours PER YEAR.

Now you can see why I think being down for a full day each week is absurd.