Provides an overview of the firearm check procedures and practices in effect as of the end of 1997. The scope of the individual State summaries has been expanded to provided information not included in the Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales, 1996. It is a continuation of ongoing data collection efforts that focus on the number of applications received, the number rejected, the reason(s) for the rejection, and other processing information associated with each application to purchase a firearm. This is the third report to be published from the BJS Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) project, which is part of the BJS National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP). The project is being conducted by the Regional Justice Information Service (REJIS) of St. Louis, Missouri. The purpose of the project is to develop statistics that describe the implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act), or, in the case of Brady Alternative States, under those States' own legislation.
Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales, 1997
NCJ Number
173942
Date Published
December 1998
Length
78 pages
Annotation
This report is the third edition of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales (1997); it updates the earlier publications and describes the procedures and practices for firearm sales in each of the 50 States and other U.S. jurisdictions as of the end of 1997.
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