[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 4473 oopsies!!! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/10/2013 3:11:57 AM EDT
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Went in buy a LCP 'bout 3 or so years ago, the shop had just opened I think I was the only customer. For whatever reason I always get nervous
when it comes to the 4473 or any legal doc really, especially as I feel the GS guy is watching me , palms sweaty , penmanship reverts to cave man quality. Anyway I complete said form , hand it to GS guy, he chuckles "WTF , you answered EVERY question incorrectly" I respond with "huh?  " , he hands me the form and retrieves another,
I look and sure enough question a-i or whatever I answered opposite of correct for every one. I always make a point of reading the questions every time for fear they may have slipped a new one in since my last purchase. 
May have been fortunate for me as I had been in the shop many times, made one other firearm purchase there or they may have thrown me out on my ear!. As it turned out he made the call , got approved paid and walked out with a LCP. Anyone else have any gunshop blunders they'd be willing to share? |
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It happens a lot. Best one I saw in our little shop was a guy filled out the form, got a prompt "DENY" and 5 minutes later the FBI called and said the police were on the way to our store, but the guy had already left.
ETA, he had filled out all the questions "right" but I think he lied on one or two answers. 
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Isn't there a check box for "all of the above"? Quoted:
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I'm sure that happens all the time. When they changed forms I checked a box that I was Mexican, or insane or something. Isn't there a check box for "all of the above"? IF you DO, automatic DENIED, not even a phone call needed 
It would be "all the above, except one:
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the majority of people miss 10a completely and then are quite surprised that they have to specifiy if they're Mexican/latino or not only the .gov could get away with that kind of racism I know for a fact you've had to hand me another form because I tend to screw shit up. |
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I just need to have a stamp made with all the answers the same every time. Letter sized stamp. Roll ink on it, THUMP, hand it back to the clerk.
I personally love how tiny the county box is. My county name is 12 letters. It ends up either smashed or wrapping over the top of the question like a third grader.
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I think I could almost fill it out with my eyes closed. Firt answer is "YES", everything else is "NO". For some reason, I always get handed off to a supervisor. Maybe because I never give my SSN, (not that it would really matter anyway). It does, for me. I have a common name, and there's apparently people with the same name that are naughty. If I don't put the SSN, there's a delay, if I put it, it's an instant proceed. |
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first time i bought from an ffl, my actual address didn't match the one on my license...
guy literally pulled the paper off the counter while i was writing, and said, "stop right there"..... i had to go home, update my address, and went back an hour or two later with the new paper DL. |
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Whenever I buy a gun I get a little nervous, and when I actually go to pick it up I always think someone's going to try and stop me from leaving with it.
I think it's because I'm from Chicago, I still can't entirely shake the thought of other people freaking the fuck out seeing me buying a gun even though the entire process is legal. |
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Whenever I buy a gun I get a little nervous, and when I actually go to pick it up I always think someone's going to try and stop me from leaving with it. I think it's because I'm from Chicago, I still can't entirely shake the thought of other people freaking the fuck out seeing me buying a gun even though the entire process is legal. When I bought my first pistol I felt like I was doing something wrong the entire drive home, and that everybody was looking at me in traffic. Goddamn you, social engineering! 
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I was BSing with the staff at the LGS the other day when picking up tax stamps and they've denied service to --
- A guy who came in interested in buying a gun because his therapist recommended he take up shooting. - A guy who came in asking to rent a gun because he wanted to shoot his mother in law. - A guy who came in wrapped in a blanket, with the front of his shoes cut off, toes hanging out, asking to buy a gun. |
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I was BSing with the staff at the LGS the other day when picking up tax stamps and they've denied service to -- - A guy who came in interested in buying a gun because his therapist recommended he take up shooting. - A guy who came in asking to rent a gun because he wanted to shoot his mother in law. - A guy who came in wrapped in a blanket, with the front of his shoes cut off, toes hanging out, asking to buy a gun. I have seen a vendor at a show tell someone to go away because they picked up a gun and held it sideways. Also of the oversized jersey/baggy pants look in a small group of the same. |
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I was BSing with the staff at the LGS the other day when picking up tax stamps and they've denied service to -- - A guy who came in interested in buying a gun because his therapist recommended he take up shooting. - A guy who came in asking to rent a gun because he wanted to shoot his mother in law. - A guy who came in wrapped in a blanket, with the front of his shoes cut off, toes hanging out, asking to buy a gun. I'm no therapist, but I tell everyone that I know with stress to take up shooting. Stressed after a long week of work, drop off at the gun club for an hour with a few hundred rounds of ammo and the stress just melts away. |
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I just need to have a stamp made with all the answers the same every time. Letter sized stamp. Roll ink on it, THUMP, hand it back to the clerk. I personally love how tiny the county box is. My county name is 12 letters. It ends up either smashed or wrapping over the top of the question like a third grader. In Virginia, you either live in a county or a city. Generally speaking, anyway. So putting the city name in the city box, and "city of XXX" in the county box is annoying. |
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LOL, this, why do they want to know if I am Hispanic or not? Quoted:
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I'm sure that happens all the time. When they changed forms I checked a box that I was Mexican, or insane or something. LOL, this, why do they want to know if I am Hispanic or not? The ATF is trying to figure out if Fast & Furious is working like it should. |
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I watch myself pretty close, nearest thing to an 'oopsie' I've ever done was kinda strange.
Was on a spree and had bought 4 or 5 guns that week, picking up this nice little S&W revolver in a pawn shop, go through the questions and hand it back, he hands it back and tells me I've filled it out wrong. Much to my surprise apparently you're supposed to write in 'N/A' on anything you don't fill in (UPIN, a couple of others I don't remember off the top of my head) ... Never heard of that before or since. Other than that I've never had to ask for a blank 4473, so I guess I'm awaiting the day that I lose it and mark myself down as a mexican/pacific islander/mentally deficient resident of maryvilllandbamatucky. |
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first time i bought from an ffl, my actual address didn't match the one on my license... guy literally pulled the paper off the counter while i was writing, and said, "stop right there"..... i had to go home, update my address, and went back an hour or two later with the new paper DL. your supposed to update that? 
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So, do you normally mark black or white? Quoted:
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I'm sure that happens all the time. When they changed forms I checked a box that I was Mexican, or insane or something. So, do you normally mark black or white? What would Elizabeth Warren check?
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We do them all day, every day at work so I see dozens of them every day. I've filled out a ton of them myself.
Last week, I started to fill one out for a personal purchase, and I put my FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME, LAST NAME in the top 3 blocks instead of Last, First, Middle. Sometimes, brain farts just happen. 
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