Thanks Lou. I made a purchase last week and my dealer said the MSP were all backed up and he wasnt going to release till he heard from them. At the time it seemed more like a CYA type of situation but he did say all that MD did was run the same NICS that he could but that in MD they had to do it. With your info now what he was saying makes more sense to me. I wasnt going to argue with him anyway. It also give me more time to come up with the rest of the money on my bill ;-)