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.