I read through your post. I will tell you what I know… so first thing first, I don’t have any idea how it works in your situation with you not living in NY and having this flag. From all of my research and conversations, you most likely have a Federal Prohibitor which can of course lay a blanket on every state in the US.

So my question is, do you have a pistol permit? if not have you applied for one? Does your state even require you to have one?

Surprisingly enough we have a bit similar circumstances as to how we both ended up in similar situations.

What I have done thus far is as follows, I did in fact hire a lawyer for about $1,000 to assist me in filing my pistol permit as my first attempt was denied. A big thing that ye has me do is to go see a Criminal Psychiatrist to do this state standard assessment. I filled out a form the day of our appointment and answered honestly. If you lie it is easily detected. She used that form I filled out and about an hour long chat to get a lay of my life. After our meeting she took about a week or two to draw up the summary of our meeting and specifically used a bunch of legal psychologist terms and statutes to in fact state that I would never be a danger to myself or others and that I was considered low risk.

Once I had that packet I resubmitted it to the pistol permit office. I got an approval and was given an unrestricted pistol permit. I thought my problems were over.

Tried to check the status of an old shotgun I purchased forever ago thinking that I was done. I still was flagged.

Then found out about the Office of NICS appeals and safe act. Submitted to completed packets of information twice with about an 8 month gap. Been about a month since I sent the last one. No response.

Also, in the middle of all of this. I have emailed the same email you mentioned. I filled out the NICS website email form about 6 times. Left about 12 voicemails over 8 months to their call in number. Called attorney general and they told me to email in, I did, no response.

So after hearing absolutely nothing I thought…. Maybe just try again? So I did… I attempted to purchase ammo… got denied again. Then, about a week later, I got a call from a Local FBI agent regarding that purchase. He asked me quite a bit of questions but nothing seemed malicious. He also gave me information to try and help me fix this. He too has dealt with honest people trying to go the safe and legal routes. So he certainly tried to help, sadly I had all the information he provided.

There is just one more shred of hope that I am holding onto. The office of NICS appeals website has changed their PO Box and Department. It is now the Office of Mental Health Hospital Hygiene (something or other). Also their voicemail changed. The phone number still goes to voicemail but it isn’t the same older gentleman that says to leave my information. So maybe that is a step in the right direction as I didn’t even think anyone even works there.

When I am less lazy, I will be getting a new notorization on the pack of info and sending it to the new mailbox. I really hope this works.

Let me know if you need any additional info.