[JoeLee]

Pennsylvania's firearms dealers are fuming over a planned state police computer upgrade that would halt all gun sales for five days starting on the busy Labor Day weekend.


Gun dealers furious as state plans 5-day halt to firearm sales -- themorningcall.com

[troy2000]

As the article points out, why do it over one of the busiest periods of the year, on such short notice that the retailers already had their sales brochures printed up and distributed?

[cubbieman]

yea, they could have picked a better time

[toolman]

HHhhmmm, I wonder if it was planned that way?

[Pumpkinheaver]

Where in the US constitution does it say you have the right to keep and bear arms except when we are upgrading software?

Somebody in Pa needs to file for an injunction and make them do this another way.

[SilverRun]

There is no need in today's world that any computer upgrade could not be conducted overnight. Leave the old system up and running on one set of servers and fire-up the new system and flip the switch, so to speak overnight - after store hours. Also, they expect to not conduct any police background checks for 5 days - seems like that could be a serious danger to police officers. Now, I am not a computer genius or a cop, so I could be wrong..

[BattleRifleG3]

That is absolutely outrageous.

[RockB]

Quote:       Originally Posted by SilverRun

There is no need in today's world that any computer upgrade could not be conducted overnight. Leave the old system up and running on one set of servers and fire-up the new system and flip the switch, so to speak overnight - after store hours.

In theory it should be able to happen like that but in practice network infrastructure upgrade/cutover rarely happen flawlessly. There is always something that no one thought about that causes a problem.

Hopefully they are just telling everyone the system will be down for 5 days to prepare them for that. If everything works as planned and the new system is up and running the next day then everyone will be happy instead of telling everyone the system will be down for 1 day and it takes 3 and everyone is

I am a DOD IT contractor and my boss always asks how long I think it will take me to finish a project. He always takes that estimate at least doubles it and feeds it up the chain. If they do the same thing by the time it reaches the customer a 1 day job now is projected to take 3. Then when it actually gets done in a day everyone is happy because you came in under budget. CYA.

[Chris]

Under Promise, and Over Deliver in the IT world.

I think this is stupid.

[Neanderthal]

They did it that way because they wanted to show everyone they can. If the people affected don't take measures to slap their fingers on this one it will be worse next time they decide to do a "power check".

[BattleRifleG3]

"power check" - good terminology there.

[OZHUNTER62]

Quote:       Originally Posted by BattleRifleG3

"power check" - good terminology there.

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[BattleRifleG3]

They did it again yesterday. The system was down when I drove the majority of an hour to pick up my RIA.

Power check is a good word for the Labor Day weekend inderdict. What happened yesterday I'd describe more along the lines of our executive branch giving gun owners the finger.