How Do I Retrieve My Own Background Check?
How to Do a Federal Firearms Background Check to Buy a Gun
National Instant Check System
The National Instant Check System (or NICS), created in 1998, enables gun dealers and state point-of-contact offices to run background checks on potential customers to determine if they are allowed to purchase a firearm. This FBI monitors this system. Most background checks can be completed within minutes unless further investigation is necessary. Information contained within the database includes prior criminal records, information from the U.S. Department of Defense and information from the U.S. State Department. When purchasing multiple firearms on the same day, only one background check will be conducted. To purchase firearms on different days, you must undergo multiple background checks for each firearm.
Contacting NICS
Gun dealers contact the NICS database directly and speak with an operator, who runs the background check. You will be required to fill out Part A of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm’s (or BATF) form 4473 so you can be identified correctly in the database. If you have a common name, you may be asked to provide your Social Security number for verification. This is voluntary, but it can help speed up the process. The gun dealer will be given a verification number once you have been cleared to purchase the firearm. If additional information needs to be verified, NICS has up three days to complete the background check. If you have not been cleared to purchase a firearm, the gun dealer will be told to delay the purchase until a further investigation has been conducted.
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No mention of school records.
That is the procedure now. Wait for the new and improved system.
IIRC when this system was instituted the records were supposed to be expunged after 30 or 60 days. Guess what.
Yes, this is how they want you to believe things go. Have you purchased a weapon very recently? If so, then you will have noticed that a new box has been added to the 4473 (box 12 I think) right before the box that asks you to state (check mark) race. An answer on that box can be marked “other”.
The very curious thing in this new box are TWO options. HISPANIC, or NOT HISPANIC....You tell me why they need this. This whole NICS crap is political and if you don’t think they’re gonna pull in every bit of information they can from now on, you should call me - I have a bridge I want to sell you.