Justice Department Rules Fix NICS Act A Success

By Ammoland

Opinion

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- In March 2018, President Trump signed into law the NSSF-championed Fix NICS Act. This bill, and versions sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and John Culberson (R-Texas) in their respective chambers, was aimed at ensuring relevant state and federal agency records are submitted to the NICS database. Sen. Cornyn named his legislation after NSSF’s ongoing FixNICS® campaign, which has changed the law in 16 states resulting in an increase of more than 240 percent of disqualifying adjudicated mental health records submitted to the FBI.

The U.S. Attorney General was charged by the Fix NICS Act to assess the plans and efforts of federal agencies, states, and tribes to improve record submissions. The Attorney General is also required to publish a semiannual report on compliance with the Act. The first of these reports was recently released and, while it is early in the implementation process, the results are positive.

The Attorney General received “satisfactory” compliance plans from 45 Federal agencies, all 50 states, D.C. and Indian tribal governments. Another 44 Federal agencies have certified that they …Read the Rest

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