you would think that by filling out your full first, middle and last name as well as providing your SSN and your State DL # the FBI could pretty much verify that you are whom you say and pull up any record you may have eh... maybe if it is close to a bad guy they have to dig deeper just to be sure? Or your application has to be forwarded to someone else for further looking into... donno if it becomes more entailed on the FBI end or not... all i know is that when that phone call is made.. there is no messing around... it is business and that is it...