what goes into the NFA background check?

[mr fixit]

Just curious....What do they look at/into when doing a NFA background check that would be different from the NCIC check when you buy a Remchester Model 110 at Wally World?

I do criminal backgrounds as part of my job. Just wondering what super secret data they have that takes so long to do.

[AlabamaPaul]

Biggest difference is the FP check by the FBI against its criminal database and your picture being put through a facial recognition search along with the time it takes for the FBI to get around to doing those things...

[66427vette]

Starting July 1 you have to submit a DNS sample.

[jryock]

Starting July 1 you have to submit a DNS sample.

Soon after they will be phasing over to implanted chips in your skull for all weapons.

[66427vette]

*DNA

[jlwilliams]

They go to your grade school and look at your Permanent Record.

[RJT]

They go to your grade school and look at your Permanent Record.

Good thing I used a trust.

[sillycon]

Just curious....What do they look at/into when doing a NFA background check that would be different from the NCIC check when you buy a Remchester Model 110 at Wally World?

I do criminal backgrounds as part of my job. Just wondering what super secret data they have that takes so long to do.

From what I've been given to understand (much of which has come from old-timers and the ASAs visit to the NFA branch) it's boils down to not much more than a NICS check other than ensuring forms are filled out correctly, and the item is legal for you to have, (and, if a trust, that your trust is legally constructed). Supposedly, the cumulative time taken for the approval process is something like a 7 minute average -- everything else is simply your form sitting in a queue waiting to get worked.

There are a few threads that flesh out the details of the process, one of them is on UziTalk and I think the other (spawned by the ASA visit a few years ago) is over on ARFCOM.