Job Background Check-- Guns?

[MATThematical]

Hi all,

As a new gun owner, a question has crossed my mind.

When I go to apply for a job here in California and they run a background check on me (including LiveScan), I assume that my background check will show that I own firearms.

Will this fact be visible to my potential employer when the background check comes back? Or do these checks just show criminal records (of which I have none)?

Just a bit of a concern, especially if my interviewer or HR manager is liberal.

[Marktallica]

If memory serves, it only shows criminal history. Your cars are also registered with the government, but your employer doesn't know what's parked in your garage. Same with guns, I believe.

[Cokebottle]

Unless you are applying to a police agency, BG checks do not reveal firearms ownership.

My HR department is very liberal and I heard no grief from them when the county sent the survey when I applied for CCW.

HR people may be liberal, but they are professional. They know more than anyone else in the company what they can and can not get away with and not end up on the wrong side of a lawsuit.

[CALI-gula]

No common employment background check cites gun ownership except something for LEO. Not even sure they could check on that if they wanted, nor is gun ownership an illegal activity in the United States.

Most people have more to worry about now with a lot of background checks looking into your financial standing and using your FICO score as part of your profile. It's not criminal, but they are using it as a measurement of someone's responsibility and maturity with money.

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[Cokebottle]

No common employment background check cites gun ownership except something for LEO. Not even sure they could check on that if they wanted, nor is gun ownership an illegal activity in the United States.

Most people have more to worry about now with a lot of background checks looking into your financial standing and using your FICO score as part of your profile. It's not criminal, but they are using it as a measurement of someone's responsibility and maturity with money.

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And social media posts.

They WILL check any profiles that they can find through a search on your name.
If your profile is private, they can still find posts that friends have tagged you in if your friends are not also private.

I un-friended my wife's brother and nephew because they constantly post crap that I don't need my boss finding.

[CALI-gula]

And social media posts.

They WILL check any profiles that they can find through a search on your name.
If your profile is private, they can still find posts that friends have tagged you in if your friends are not also private.

I un-friended my wife's brother and nephew because they constantly post crap that I don't need my boss finding.

Yep. That has become a standard part of it now, especially for millennials. All kinds of crazy things people would prefer to keep private get easily revealed. No costly background search needed. Even when they set it up as private, their links and friends are not private, so something threads back to that photo that was supposed to be private because it's linked to some friend's page that is not private, so it shows up in Google Images searches anyway.

Which ironically, they do a Google image search , which weeds back to the LinkedIn page, the Instagram account, to the post online of poses with guns on AR15.com, 4Chan, and Calguns. No need for the background check; you handed them a photo of you with your Romanian AKM for free and it took all of about 6 clicks to find it.

i have done the above on new prospective employees being considered for hire. It's not really hard to dig up things on people anymore because they out it out there willingly.

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[Quiet]

Top teir Universities also check student applicants social media usage to see what type of person they are and use that activity as a contributing factor in getting accepted or denied.

[uhlan1]

I can't see if you own any guns (plus in my book anyway), but I will check out your social media. Have found it very enlightening and I believe has saved me a lot of pain.

[Rodell]

HR's job is to protect the company from the employees. HR was the first to promote anti-gun policies at one of the companies I worked at many years ago. They did it with the zealousness of any liberal today.

When I started running companies, I obliterated those weapons policies. In my current company, we have a policy that you are required to own a firearm! (jokingly, of course, but most do.)