Denied handgun purchase! And I work for the State..

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Me, the fact that my personal information has been hacked on credit card sites, credit card sites as well as the US Government bothers me a lot more than something that has a path to get cleared up.

Oh that and the Bureau of Consumer Protection is been gutted and the Equifax hacked site walked away without any charges being filed.

This is likely the culprit. Yeah, I was another denied after PCSing (move) from Kansas to Texas. An employee from a gun store transaction "borrowed" my SSN. Once I got to Texas I tried to purchase a handgun, I was flagged. It was a PITA, but I now have a UPIN.

Fast forward to just a few years ago after moving to GA, I went to renew my FL CHL and was flagged for some "felony" charge. This was concerning as a service member with a TS/SCI clearance, but it just took several phone calls to find out some dinky town from my home state in WA that I've never been to (and which I haven't lived in WA for over 25 years) had a local arrest with someone who either used my SSN or was simply recorded incorrectly during a misdemeanor (public indecency...go figure). The guy didn't have my name or birthdate. I had to use some official headers, but the local sheriff quickly corrected the error and cleared up the charge that the FL clerk found. That whole issue is the most disconcerting as a processing clerk in the State of FL could find a "flag" on me from a misdemeanor in some place I've never been in a state I hadn't lived in for over two decades. The FBI wasn't much help other than saying there were no Federal flags on me. Strange, but not comforting.

I suspect it's something other than the OPs dropped charge when they were 17...

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