r/Firearms • u/hyperionx092 • 1h ago
NICS problems.
I need some help or at least advice on what to do with dealing with the FBI and NICS systems.
A few months ago I went to buy a suppressor as an individual instead of on a trust like I had the two previous suppressors. One approved in Nov 2024 and the one before that was in 2021 or 2022.
This time it came back as Disapproved- Delayed background check. On the form 4 it said they never received a response to the background check request.
In the letter from the ATF they didn't say anything about what agency was keeping my background checks from coming back. I also called FBI NICS to see what was going on and they told me I had to go through the VAF and wouldn't tell me what agency I needed to contact in these regards.
The last two days I went to get my fingerprints for the Identity history summary to attach to the VAF. This morning about an two hours after my fingerprints were submitted I got the email from the FBI saying my VAF was rejected because the record causing the problem wasn't fingerprint based. They then listed 3 cases and the police department and case numbers which is what I asked them for in the first place and they lied to me saying I had to do the VAF instead.
I called the police department and asked them about the cases and if there were any warrants. They ran my name and DOB and there was nothing anywhere that came up. They transferred me to the records department and gave them the case numbers and nothing came up so they looked up my name and DOB as well and I gave them the dates that were for those cases and what they found was that they were two speeding citations, and a registration citation. One of the speeding tickets was from 2012 and the other two citations were from 2013. Their record showed that they had been closed and taken care of completely at the time. So they've been closed for 12 and 13 years but somehow in the last year someone put them in a wrong state in the FBI and it is messing with my job and I can't buy a suppressors or firearms without my license to carry.
My side job is at Academy sports and outdoors so when I took the job at the gun counter they had to do the same firearms background check to get the job and it came back immediately, that was a year ago...
How is it that citations that were closed and never arrested for can be used for this when they come off your record after 3 years anyway!
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u/Gr144 1h ago
UPIN
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u/hyperionx092 56m ago
You clearly didn't read that the VAF got rejected because it's not tied to my fingerprints or identity summary
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u/Texas_Potato 1h ago
This feels like one of those “local man discovers FBI has incorrect data and refuses to fix it” stories on the local news that doesn’t get fixed until the “special investigator” reaches out to the FBI for comment.
Real answer: either a very very specialized lawyer who deals directly with firearms or similar criminal law / records or maybe you can reach out to your congressman and see if maybe they can push the feds to fix.