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When I was 15 years old, my buddy made a poor choice and tried to play airsoft at a public school on a Saturday. We learned our lessons, but a few years later during our recruiting process into the Marine Corps, the incident came up even though we were never charged with anything. We had no interaction with the police or the DA after we were released from the station.
I'm 20 now and active duty. Whenever I have purchased a firearm, I am delayed by NICS, but eventually cleared. I suspect this has to do with this incident years ago. Is there anyway I can check?

Austin, first off, Welcome to RP from the Florida Panhandle! Usually we ask our newest members to go to the New Member Introductions (http://www.realpolice.net/forums/new-member-introductions-15/) forum and post a thread telling us a bit more about themselves.

Secondly, the forum you posted in is clearly marked as "Writer's Questions" and somehow I'm guessing your not asking this question as a scenario for a book or play you're writing. Therefore, I'm going to move it to the regular Ask-A-Cop section.

As for the answer to your question, I don't really have one. I can't see that a youthful prank that you were never charged for would be holding you up buying a firearm as an adult, but the world is a weird place now. My guess is that it's just the normal time for a background check that you're experiencing. Hopefully other LEO's will have more info for you, as my answer is just a SWAG.

When I was 15 years old, my buddy made a poor choice and tried to play airsoft at a public school on a Saturday. We learned our lessons, but a few years later during our recruiting process into the Marine Corps, the incident came up even though we were never charged with anything. We had no interaction with the police or the DA after we were released from the station.
I'm 20 now and active duty. Whenever I have purchased a firearm, I am delayed by NICS, but eventually cleared. I suspect this has to do with this incident years ago. Is there anyway I can check?

Austin-

I'm confused. The title of your queston is "Citation on juvenile record" but you say in your post that "you were never charged with anything" and you suggest that you never had to go to court after you were released from the station. These two things contradict each other.

If you got a citation, then you had a court date and there *were* charges pressed. If they took you to the station, called your parents, and let you go (with no further action), then you did NOT "get a citation."

If the second incident is what happened, my guess would be that the incident "came up" during your recruitment because you brought it up... It's possible that no formal report was even taken in that case.

I don't know if there's a way to find out why you get delayed when purchasing a firearm or not. I'm sure one of our resdient Feds will be along shortly to help out with that.

-Citicop.

Citicop, thank you for the clarification. The reason why I think its still on record is that it was brought up during the recruitment process, my recruiter and I went down to the police station and got a copy of the report. I always figured that this was why I was delayed by NICS when I purchased a rifle.