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When you purchase a firearm from a dealer, they phone your information in to NICS. NICS conducts a background check on you, and determines if the sale will proceed or be declined.
NICS takes a couple of minutes.
Depends on your state and how quickly your results come back on your NICS background check.
NICS stands for National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Being NICS certified means that an individual or organization has met the requirements necessary to conduct background checks on firearm purchases through the NICS system. It allows them to verify if potential buyers are eligible to purchase firearms under federal law.
Be the right age and have the money to buy the gun, pass a background check, and be responsible!!!!!! --- There are no background checks required to purchase guns from individuals in the majority of states. And if one has a concealed-carry license they can avoid the federal NICS background check when purchasing a firearm from FFL dealers.
A federal conviction found in the NCIC may in some states be discovered during a background check. States that defer to the federal NICS check may not find any such conviction. However, states like Oregon that run independent searches will find any NICS, NCIC and a few other data bases convictions.
If you try to buy a gun, and your NICS background check comes back as a "Deny Sale", then you'll know. That's the simplest way to go about it.
Properly known as the NICS, it was created by the FBI (and not by any one person). However, it is not used nationwide, only in 30 states. Other states, such as Virginia, had their own "instant check" system operating before NICS was created. In some other states, a background check is not required for citizens of that state that hold an "alternate permit"- such as a concealed weapons permit that is subject to the same or better screening than NICS. You can find information on NICS at the FBI website- including a map of the states that participate, and those that have different arrangements.
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When you buy a firearm online, it gets delivered to a licensed FFL dealer. When you go to get it from the dealer, that's where you fill out the Form 4473 and get your NICS background check done.
Could be a number of reasons. Some states have waiting periods in the belief that it may let someone "cool down" if they are angry, or it may be possible that your NICS background check was delayed.
FEDERAL law requires all dealers to have customers fill out a Form 4473 and call in for an NICS background check before a firearm is sold. For private sales, the specifics of the laws vary by state.