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In all the years I have purchased firearms this is the first time something like this has ever happened to me. I wont name the dealer because it was an honest mistake on their end and it ended up having nothing to do with me, but I am more curious on how this would actually play out if it was a real situation.
I moved to a new area a few months ago and I ordered a rifle from a dealer I have never been to before. It came in last week and I picked it up on Saturday morning. I filled out the background check paperwork and he called in for the approval. After 10 minutes or so he hung up the phone and told me I was approved and good to go. Fast forward to yesterday. I get a call from the dealer and when I answer the phone he says I need you to return that gun I sold you. I was confused and asked him why, I was actually assuming there was design flaw with the firearm and it was a safety recall or something. He then told me that my background check was reversed and came back as denied and I needed to return the firearm. I told him such a thing has never happened to me before and he asked me if I had any felonies that would be an issue and I said nothing this is the first time anything like this has happened to me. He said well let me look at something really quick and then he suddenly said he made a mistake and called the wrong person it was a person with a name similar to mine and he made a mistake and we are good and nothing to worry about.
Has anyone else had this sort of thing happen before? I was honestly somewhat shocked that a background check can get approved and then would be reversed days later. I had nothing to worry about as I had nothing to hide but isn't the point of the background check to keep firearms out of the hands of the criminals? Handing a criminal a gun and then asking for it back a few days later seems a little backwards to me? But who knows maybe this is more normal than I think?
I moved to a new area a few months ago and I ordered a rifle from a dealer I have never been to before. It came in last week and I picked it up on Saturday morning. I filled out the background check paperwork and he called in for the approval. After 10 minutes or so he hung up the phone and told me I was approved and good to go. Fast forward to yesterday. I get a call from the dealer and when I answer the phone he says I need you to return that gun I sold you. I was confused and asked him why, I was actually assuming there was design flaw with the firearm and it was a safety recall or something. He then told me that my background check was reversed and came back as denied and I needed to return the firearm. I told him such a thing has never happened to me before and he asked me if I had any felonies that would be an issue and I said nothing this is the first time anything like this has happened to me. He said well let me look at something really quick and then he suddenly said he made a mistake and called the wrong person it was a person with a name similar to mine and he made a mistake and we are good and nothing to worry about.
Has anyone else had this sort of thing happen before? I was honestly somewhat shocked that a background check can get approved and then would be reversed days later. I had nothing to worry about as I had nothing to hide but isn't the point of the background check to keep firearms out of the hands of the criminals? Handing a criminal a gun and then asking for it back a few days later seems a little backwards to me? But who knows maybe this is more normal than I think?