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Do you buy a lot? Could they be flagging you for having a lot of purchases? Thinking your a straw buyer?
Common myth that perpetuates. I've ran MANY background checks on customers buying lots of guns and they have never been denied or delayed because of it. Point is, something associated with your name has a flag at the FBI. I've had customers have issues with someone with a matching name, customers having a clearance renewed for work, and customers with identity theft issues. The vast majority of delays are approved, it just takes time for the flag to be investigated.
90% of the time (not saying this is you Iron), the purchaser had some run in with the law and some bureaucrat didn't follow through with paperwork causing a perpetual flag.
The "3 day" rule puts FFLs in a precarious position. Yes, they can legally turn over the firearm to you. However, if that purchaser were to then go on to commit a crime (like the FFL who turned over the Glock to the South Carolina church shooter, their business and possibly life is done. BATFE does not exactly play by the rules (see Ares Armor) and I know agents that have said flat out, if you turn over a firearm and you get a denial, you're done. I consider it like when I did field day inspections on my Marines; I could ALWAYS find dirt somewhere. The BATFE can always find a violation at an FFL. So, while bubblegumty, the FFL now has to decide, do they risk their business and possibly life on someone they don't know who very well could be a criminal? It sucks, I realize that, but that's the power the government has given a completely unaccountable BATFE.
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