NICs definition

NICs means the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established by the United States Attorney General pursuant to United States Code 18 U.S.C. § 922(t).

Examples of NICs in a sentence

  • In addition, as under the state grant provisions, NIAA required those referring agencies to establish a firearms disabilities relief program, whereby any individual referred to the NICS index for reasons related to mental incompetency would be able to petition to have his or her gun rights and privileges restored, if and when he or she had overcome the incapacities that led to the initial finding.Thirty-two states and the VA have established disability relief programs under NIAA.

  • From the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2016, the number of those records contributed by state and local authorities to the NICS index had increased by 2,715%.Federal agencies had contributed 171,083 such records to the NICS index, of which the VA had contributed 167,815 (98.1%), as of December 31, 2016.

  • By comparison, federal agencies hadcontributed 139,153 records to the NICS index as of January 1, 2007, the bulk of which werecontributed by the VA.

  • According to the BJS, there were 298,571 prohibiting records related to mental incompetency in the NICS index as of January 1, 2007.

  • Nonetheless, the subsequent legislative history shows that some Members of Congress have long taken issue with the ATF interpretation of the term “adjudicated as a mental defective.”18 NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007In April 2007, an offender armed with two pistols shot to death 32 individuals and nonfatally wounded another 17, before shooting himself to death at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia.


More Definitions of NICs

NICs means employee National Insurance Contributions under the UK Component.
NICs means National Insurance Contributions. “Occasion of Tax Non-Compliance” means:
NICs means the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. NICS is the system mandated by the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act of 1993 that is used by FFLs to instantly determine via telephone or other electronic means whether the transfer of a firearm would be in violation of Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18, United States Code, or state law, by evaluating the prospective buyer's criminal history. In North Carolina, NICS is used by sheriff's offices throughout the state to assist in determining an individual's eligibility for either a permit to purchase a firearm or a concealed handgun permit.
NICs means the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of determining whether the transfer of a firearm to any person or the issuance of a firearms-related permit would be in violation of federal or state law. A NICS check shall include inquiries to the Iowa computerized criminal history database and the persons file of the Iowa on-line warrants and articles (IOWA) system.