I'm interested in taking up target shooting and hunting as hobbies, and I want to buy a gun, but I have concerns about whether or not I would pass a background check: 1) I was committed to the mental ward when I was in 8th grade. 2) I did dumb things in college while drunk.
Explanations: 1. My parents' marriage was on the rocks while I was a minor, and they took it out on me. I haven't had any mental health issues beyond the average college stresses after I moved out, I'm not on any medication or seeing a shrink, and I've never been adjudicated or legally declared mentally anything. I was committed to the loony ward and the bad seed academy purely at my parent's discretion, on my parents' dime. I've never been to jail.
2. I don't drink very often. I'm not alcohol dependent. But when I drink, I get wasted blackout puking drunk. And I had an embarrassing incident in Fall of last year which ended with me spending the night in the ER. I'd been chugging shots of whiskey and I don't remember what else, I'd been kicked out of a bar for being a nuisance, and I was angry so I vented my grievance by verbally accosting a bunch of randoms with the intention of provoking them to beat me to death. It made sense at the time...and yes I know it was idiotic. No punches were exchanged, but the police came to get me, handcuffs etc., because I'd been "threatening suicide." So they had to take me to the ER. I calmed down after that, had a urine test, it showed that I was completely plastered, and I went home the next morning my normal self (albeit mortified by my own behavior.) I've never gotten in any actual fights or damaged any property while drunk, no DUI's, none of that.
Are the things from when I was a minor or the drunken stupidity incident going to count against me on the background check?