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Legalizemybody

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Mar 19, 2020
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What happens if I fail a background check to purchase a handgun in US?
 
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bennay

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Nothing happens other than they will just inform you that due to whatever reason you cannot purchase one.
 
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everydayiloveyou

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Jul 5, 2020
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What do you mean specifically? Like legal repurcussions, medical, etc?

If you fail you will just not get a gun. If it's revealed that you are a danger to yourself or others (e.g. admit you were buying to kill yourself later) they may call authorities to have you sectioned, but I don't think people who deal guns are mandatory reporters so they may just move on with their lives and blacklist you at that location.
 
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Legalizemybody

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Mar 19, 2020
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Do you have reason to believe that you will fail a gun background check?

Hopefully this article will be helpful to you.

Ahhh that was soooo helpful!!! No i have no reason except i stayed in psychiatric units a lot and was court ordered for telling them my medication was causing me extreme agitation and homicidal thoughts. But they kept me on the medication and kept me in the hospital. The medication destroyed me. But no crime record or any criminal thing.
 

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