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Michael N. Bowling, Ph.D., Gene A. Lauver, Regional Justice Information Service, Matthew J. Hickman, Ph.D., Devon B. Adams, Bureau of Justice Statistics
September 23, 2004 NCJ 204428
Describes background checks for firearm transfers conducted in 2003, and presents trends during the Permanent Brady Period (1999-2003). This annual report provides the number of applications checked by State points of contact, estimates of the number of applications checked by local agencies, the number of applications rejected, the reasons for rejection, and estimates of applications and rejections conducted by each type of approval system. It also provides information about appeals of rejected applications and arrests for falsified applications. The Firearm Inquiry Statistics Program, managed under the National Criminal History Improvement Program, is an ongoing data collection effort focusing on the procedures and statistics related to background checks in selected States.
Highlights:
Part of the Background Checks for Firearm Transfers Series
Press Release
Full report (PDF 642K)
ASCII file (40K)
Spreadsheet (Zip format 36K)
To cite this product, use the following link:
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=393
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