Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire NICS background check denial ... has it happened to you?

Why would I come here to ask about getting denied and appealing if I knew I was a felon or a fugitive or something? Anyways, I'm just a stranger on the internet so I guess it doesn't really matter if I'm telling the truth or not or if people believe me.

Sounds like a lot of you have experienced delays, but not too many denials. Most of the denials I read about are from people with criminal records that they thought wouldn't count against them (juvenile stuff or things that have been expunged/pardoned), or from people with unknown bench warrants from minor stuff like traffic violations. There is the occasional case of mistaken identity as well. I'm assuming I fall in the last category, because I've never been arrested and I would have been prompt with any parking tickets or that sort of thing. But I guess you never know.

I'm not looking forward to the appeal process. Sounds like it can take forever.

This ^^^^^ would be my guess as well. Someone at Cabelas fat fingered or misspoke something. I have only ever had one delay. Put my middle initial on the 4473 instead of my full middle name. Once my FFL was on the phone, he guessed at my middle name (guessed wrong). And I was delayed for three days. Lesson learned. Don't take short cuts on the 4473. Fill out everything completely. Zero room for errors...

I've been telling ya'll.................the government is reading what we post here.

If you want to be able to fly under the radar, better start posting down in the food part of this place.

Denied 3 x I guess spread out over like 6 months. FBI lady was very helpful in resolving the issue. Entire name 2 letters off , birthday same 1 year apart . Height weight same . Convicted felon in CA.
Funny thing is those time I left off SSN was by accident. Have a file of the convict, even look a bit alike 🥴. Given a personal ID number I can use, never have never have forgot SSN number again either 😁.no problems again numbers purchases since. The incident happened 01- 02 range I think. May have wife find few and see ,curious myself.

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My son has his permit to carry, here in MN it doubles as a permit to purchase.

He was at Fleet Farm buying a Ruger Blackhawk 44 Mag.

He was filling out the forms when the clerk told him that he could not continue without a permit to purchase. A discussion took place about his permit to purchase vs the permit to carry The manger was called and he was dumber than the clerk.

We punched up the information on the State Website on his phone, they both read it and said, nope you are wrong.

They called somebody in corporate and we were told they could not sell without a Permit to Purchase and the Permit to carry does not qualify.

Idiots

Good news, I guess. I found the source of my trouble - someone with my name with a warrant out in a different state. Different age, but a typo somewhere in the system had me flagged as their guy. It took a lot of phone calls just to find it, and I was glad to find a sheriff's department finally willing to run my name through the system over the phone. It is getting fixed. Now I get to begin the long process of an NICS appeal.

If I find a gun I really want between now and when the appeal goes through, I might try to see if I pass the check, since hopefully I will soon be no longer associated with a faraway felony warrant. But I think that simply having a previous denial is enough to get you denied again.

livein western New Jersey, I do all my transfers in Easton, PA. I love the PICS system, 30 seconds and done! New Jersey is 4-7 day wait. Plus, PA is half the cost.

I didn’t know you had to put your phone number on the form. Surprised I haven’t been denied.

Carry permit, no NICS

I fill out several requests for info every week, it seems all they care about is drug use and failed drug tests.

The whole system is a waste of time. Criminals don't buy from gun stores.


Mike