Buddy got denied a handgun purchase 20 yrs ago or so.

Since then he has gone through 2 lawyers and a session down in Portage County getting fingerprinted,eye scanned etc for federal paperwork involving said denial.
The state said that they could find nothing on any records precluding him from buying a firearms but advised him to talk to the county sheriff office where he had
misdemeanor disturbing the peace that may or may not have had a domestic surcharge added on.

He decided he wanted to buy a shotgun the other day and after 5 days of waiting for the approval he went in to put up his long gun. The dealer told him he was
denied.

He has had his records researched and no of those who did background checks could find any reason for him to be denied.

One of elements of this I was wondering about is if this happened pre Lautenberg amendment 1989 was it common for a "domestic" surcharge to be added on
and could this be a dis-qualifier anyway?

We were talking about us old guys getting together again for some bird hunting like we used to do when we were younger...