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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adamsredlines" data-source="post: 3814728" data-attributes="member: 40561">I think for a long gun they can run you on a 4473 and call it in if you do not have their little permits, but a pistol requires the permit. I'm honestly not sure what good it does because I have run people for their purchase permit and you just type their information in and if there have no outstanding warrants or violent criminal history then the sheriff just approves it and moves on. It sounds about like what happens when you call in a 4473 although I have never been on that side of it so I am not exactly sure.So I know when they run the background checks, if your name is very similar to someone else's and your birth date is in the same range it will pull back all that information and spit it out and the person who is doing the check has to basically weed through it to make sure that the information pertains to the one they are actually looking at. I would think that's potentially what happens when you fill out a 4473, if it spits back more than just one result for a person with the information that was input, they probably delay it so they can shuffle through and make sure that they are checking the correct person. I would think in this instance since you were dealing with the local law enforcements instead of a branch trying to do the entire country, that process would be much quicker and easier to discuss and now once you are approved for the purchase permit, you would not have to deal with that again until it is time to renew I guess. This is all just speculation as I'm not 100% sure but I an now kind of curious and will ask the sheriff here how that would work.</blockquote>

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