I don't know.Quote from Covertibility:
Do background checks involve a person or a computer reviewing the application? If computer, does the background check run off an algorithm that denies all applications relating to prior drug charges?
I do know background checks are largely worthless in many cases.
Recently an department or firm (I forgot) tasked with doing federal background checks was found to have been fabricating interviews for YEARS. Sometimes even interviewing dead people and using those interviews to clear the people being checked.
Earlier this year I obtained permission from the BATF to fabricate a sound suppressor for my .45. Which is as fucking stupid as having to paying the feds for permission to put a muffler on my car, but I digress.
On one of the forms I had to verify my citizenship. Which consisted of me writing the name of the person in question - me. Writing the name of the person verifying/corroborating my citizenship - me again. And then the signature of the providing the verification. Which of course was...yep that's right - me. According to our federal government writing my name twice and then signing constitutes verification I'm a US citizen.