The system has denied me on about 1/3 of my purchases for the past 25 years. My name is the same as someone who killed a cop in New York long ago. I never lived in NY and I have a different ID and SSN. If the background check person is a lib, any match will usually deny my purchase. And on the other hand they don’t try so hard to prohibit criminals.
“...If the background check person is a lib...”
They can read?
I recently won a rifle in a local raffle and as expected had to go through a background check before I was allowed to take possession. Basically, a series of a few very simple question which I had to answer “Yes” or “No” to and in a few minutes, I walked out the door with the rifle. I could NOT have lied on any of those questions since answering “Yes” to the first question, “Are you the purchaser of this weapon?” was the ONLY “YES” I could have listed. Had I answered “Yes” to any of the other questions would have set off alarm bells, red flashing lights, etc. and I would NOT have received that rifle. The questions are set up to trap you should you lie.
Mine goes straight through. My brother who has a top secret clearance is always denied initially, then cleared. Very weird.