Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline J · Criminal Conduct
Weapons Offense
Does weapons offense affect a security clearance?
Basis: 101 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
101
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
24%
24 granted · 77 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 32(a) · So much time has passed, or the circumstances were so unusual | 13 | 2 |
| ¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown | 9 | 1 |
| ¶ 32(c) · No reliable evidence that the person committed the offense | 3 | 3 |
¶ 32(a) · So much time has passed, or the circumstances were so unusual
- In granted cases
- 13
- In denied cases
- 2
¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown
- In granted cases
- 9
- In denied cases
- 1
¶ 32(c) · No reliable evidence that the person committed the offense
- In granted cases
- 3
- In denied cases
- 3
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 3 granted cases
- no subsequent offenses · credited in 2 granted cases
- community involvement · credited in 1 granted case
- explanation of omission credible · credited in 1 granted case
- rehabilitation evidence · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
Applicant, a defense contractor quality assurance program manager and Navy veteran, faced allegations under Guidelines J, E, and H involving decades of criminal conduct, traffic offenses, workplace di…
Applicant, a 29-year-old security guard employed by a defense contractor, sought a security clearance after submitting his application in May 2022. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reas…
The applicant, a 70-year-old engineer, was denied security clearance due to unresolved security concerns under Guidelines E and J. He admitted to being terminated for bringing a handgun to work in Dec…
Applicant, a defense contractor employee, was denied eligibility for a security clearance after the judge found against him on Guideline J and Guideline E. The record showed juvenile attempted murder,…
Related issues under Guideline J
- Unspecified Criminal Conduct (2,130)
- DUI / DWI (criminal charge) (1,089)
- Drug-Related Criminal Charge (820)
- Assault or Battery (596)
- Fraud or Deception (Criminal) (526)
- Theft or Larceny (431)
How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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