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Gun Control: Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 21, 2000
Report No. T-GGD-00-163
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Summary:

This testimony draws on two recent GAO reports on the establishment and operation of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which was mandated by the Brady Act in 1998. (See GAO/GGD/AIMD-00-64, Feb. 2000, and GAO/GGD-00-56, Apr. 2000.) GAO focuses on the following four aspects of the system: (1) the system's availability and responsiveness, (2) the type of information available from the system compared to that available to state and local law enforcement agencies before the system, (3) the advantages and the disadvantages of system background checks done by state agencies rather than the FBI, and (4) the extent to which transactions under the system have resulted in firearms being sold to ineligible persons.

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