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Presale Handgun Checks, the Brady Interim Period, 1994-98
Provides a national estimate of handgun purchase applications, the number
rejected, and the reasons for rejection during the interim period before
the permanent provisions of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
went into effect. These data were collected by the Regional Justice Information
Service (REJIS) of St. Louis, Missouri and focus on the presale handgun
checks from March 1, 1994 to November 29, 1998, the interim period. During
this time, an estimated 12,740,000 applications for handgun purchases
resulted in 312,000 rejections through background checks. From January
thru November 1998, about 2,384,000 background checks of the potential
handgun buyers prevented an estimated 70,000 purchases. For all of 1998
including December 1998, the first month of the permanent provisions of
the Brady Act, the number of handgun application rejections totaled an
estimated 78,000. 6/99 NCJ 175034
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