. . "The way I remember it, before NICS some individual states had their own system, and in Fla we had a five-day wait before that.Once the Florida Firearm Purchase Program (call-in background check) was in place, there was an option to reduce or eliminate the wait, and Fla for whatever reason that must have made sense to the politicians involved, reduced the wait to three days.Later, once NICS was up" . .