Around 2020 I was thinking of buying another handgun. I knew I had been TDO'd and briefly committed but I received no treatment. There was language on the ATF form which said if your commitment was for observation only, it didn't restrict your firearm rights. I wasn't sure how to find out if my rights had been restricted or not. I contacted the state police NICS office, and they were the people to talk to but I didn't know that for sure. They wouldn't give me a straight answer to the simple question "have my rights been restricted or not." So I moved on. Then I decided to purchase a long rifle, and I did not believe I needed to fill out the ATF form but I was wrong again. I answered the TDO question incorrectly and learned my rights had been restricted. So I called the NICS office again and said I would like an email stating I had tried to learn of my rights status from your office and I was turned away. They got mad and said hell no.I asked why they didn't give me a straight answer and they said it was a privacy issue. Well, they could have emailed me a release and I would have signed it and sent it back. So the NICS guy asks me what felony I had been convicted of. I said I was never convicted of a felony. Oh, if it was for mental health, he says, I could have told you straight up you were restricted. In other words, some felony convictions don't restrict your firearm rights, but every mental health commitment will. So I petitioned the court and had my rights restored. I went to the gun shop that had been holding the rifle I had payed for. I had to fill out the background check once more, and came to the question...have you ever been committed. I asked the dealer how I should answer. He knows my rights were reinstated. He checked a reference manual and said " you have to answer no." Go figure. Also, I began working for a government agency a few years back. I had to go to the sheriff's office and get digital fingerprints and submit them to the Army security agency for clearance to use the government computer system. I never heard back. My Human Resources office asked me why I failed to submit the prints. I told my immediate supervisor I did submit them and I went back and got another set of prints and this time I let him submit them. Never heard back again, and this time HR didn't complain. Now I'm thinking, the Army Security Agency saw I had been committed and my firearms rights restricted, so they refused to authorize my use of the computer system, but no one told me and at that time I didn't know my rights had been restricted but they did. That's OK. Now I know my rights have been restored, and they don't LOL Their computer system would only makes my job more difficult anyway.