Category Archives: Weapon Background Checks

Category Archives: Weapon Background Checks

Illinois Chief Justice issues reminder that court orders determining a person to have mental health problems must be forwarded to Illinois State Police for weapon background checks

This post is a follow-up on an earlier one regarding the Illinois State Auditor General’s report on the limited adherence of counties statewide to report mental health findings to the Illinois State Police for its background checks for Firearm Owner’s Identification Cards. That post may be found at /2/post/2012/05/illinois-auditor-general-releases-report-on-effectiveness-of-illinois-firearms-owners-identification-card-act.html. The Auditor General’s report indicated that […]

Justice Department Report on Background Checks for Firearm Transfers

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the United States Department of Justice recently published a report “Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2010-Statistical Tables,” which can be found at https://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/bcft10st.pdf. The report analyzes the data of the 118 million applications for firearm transfers or permits that have been subject to background checks since the Brandy Handgun […]

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