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  2. National Instant Criminal Background Check System - Wikipedia

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    The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a background check system in the United States created by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 to prevent firearm sales to people prohibited under the Act.

  3. Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act - Wikipedia

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    It also imposed a five-day waiting period on purchases until the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was implemented in 1998. Introduced by U.S. representative Chuck Schumer of New York, the Brady Act was a landmark legislative enactment during the Clinton administration. The act was appended to the end of Section 922 of ...

  4. NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 - Wikipedia

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    The NICS Improvement Amendments Act (Pub. L. 110–180 (text)) was passed in 2007 in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings in order to address loopholes in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, commonly known as NICS, which enabled Seung-Hui Cho to buy firearms despite having been ruled a danger to himself by a Virginia court.

  5. Gun Background Checks Soared During Pandemic - AOL

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    The FBI processed a record high number of gun background checks in March — nearly 4.7 million in one month. Federal law gives the National Instant Criminal Background Check System three business ...

  6. This year, there were nearly 170,000 firearms background checks initiated through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) on Black Friday – the most in one day since ...

  7. There were over 1 million opportunities for someone to buy a gun from a licensed dealer without a completed background check in 2020 and 2021, according to an F