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Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022-Criteria for National Instant Criminal Background Check System (“NICS”) Background Checks of Firearm Handlers
The Justice Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on December 12, 2024. Comments closed on January 13, 2025.
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What the agency says
The United States Department of Justice ("Department") proposes several amendments to regulations pertaining to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System ("NICS" or "system") of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"). The proposed amendments implement parts of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act ("BSCA"), which, in relevant part, require the Attorney General to promulgate regulations authorizing certain Federal Firearm Licensees ("FFLs" or "licensees") to use NICS for purposes of voluntarily conducting employment background checks relating to certain current or prospective employees. As this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") describes in more detail, the Department proposes allowing FFLs to use NICS for employment background checks of their "firearm handlers" and other "eligible employees."
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-28711
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking
- Agency
- Justice Department
- Published
- December 12, 2024
- Comments due
- January 13, 2025
- Dates
- Written comments must be postmarked, and electronic comments must be submitted, on or before January 13, 2025. Commenters should be aware the electronic Federal Docket Management System will not accept comments after 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the last day of the comment period.
- Docket
- Docket No. FBI-159; AG Order No. 6099-2024
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1110-AA35
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 28 CFR 25
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Arms and munitions; Computer technology; Privacy; Security measures; Telecommunications
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 16
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