If your wife tried to purchase the gun and was refused for whatever reason then it is my understanding that all the guns you own would have to be stored at a location where your wife did not have access to them or sold!
Absolutely false.
Prohibited persons are defined in 18 USC 922 (g) quoted at the end of this post.
1. A military spouse in a state such as Washington may retain their out of state driver's license. They would be denied the purchase of a handgun or stripped lower receiver at an FFL due to lack of identification showing their true state of residence, but would not be a prohibited person.
2. A person between the ages of 18 and 21 would be denied the purchase of a handgun or stripped lower receiver at an FFL, but would not be a prohibited person.
3. People get denied by NICS many times because of identity errors when they are not prohibited persons, thus the reason for the NICS appeal process. Failing a NICS check does not make a person prohibited from possessing firearms, it only indicates that they might be prohibited.
Prohibited persons are:
(g) It shall be unlawful for any person—
(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
(2) who is a fugitive from justice;
(3) who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));
(4) who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution;
(5) who, being an alien—
(A) is illegally or unlawfully in the United States; or
(B) except as provided in subsection (y)(2), has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(26) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)(26)));
(6) who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
(7) who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced his citizenship;
(8) who is subject to a court order that—
(A) was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had an opportunity to participate;
(B) restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child; and
(C)
(i) includes a finding that such person represents a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child; or
(ii) by its terms explicitly prohibits the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against such intimate partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury; or
(9) who has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence,
to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.
