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Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2007 - Statistical Tables
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Table 4. Reasons for denial of firearm transfer applications by checking agencies, 1999-2007
| |
2007 |
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|
1999-2007 |
|
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| Reason for denial |
FBI |
|
State |
|
Local |
FBI |
|
State |
|
Local |
|
| |
| Total |
100.0 |
% |
100.0 |
% |
100.0 |
% |
|
100.0 |
% |
100.0 |
% |
100.0 |
% |
|
|
| Felony indictment/conviction |
35.5 |
|
38.6 |
|
25.4 |
|
|
46.6 |
|
54.9 |
|
27.2 |
|
| Other criminal historya |
29.0 |
|
… |
|
… |
|
|
20.4 |
|
… |
|
… |
|
| State law prohibition |
… |
|
8.9 |
|
9.0 |
|
|
… |
|
7.1 |
|
13.8 |
|
| Domestic violence |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Misdemeanor conviction |
8.5 |
|
6.7 |
|
11.5 |
|
|
11.9 |
|
10.1 |
|
11.1 |
|
| |
Restraining order |
3.9 |
|
3.6 |
|
2.2 |
|
|
4.4 |
|
3.4 |
|
1.8 |
|
| Fugitive |
7.2 |
|
6.0 |
|
2.2 |
|
|
4.4 |
|
6.6 |
|
1.3 |
|
| Illegal alien |
1.2 |
|
0.2 |
|
0.4 |
|
|
1.3 |
|
0.5 |
|
0.5 |
|
| Mental illness or disability |
0.8 |
|
3.0 |
|
4.4 |
|
|
0.5 |
|
1.9 |
|
4.2 |
|
| Drug addiction |
9.4 |
|
1.2 |
|
11.3 |
|
|
7.2 |
|
0.8 |
|
7.9 |
|
| Local law prohibition |
… |
|
0.0 |
|
2.3 |
|
|
… |
|
0.0 |
|
5.5 |
|
| Other prohibitionsb |
4.6 |
|
31.7 |
|
31.5 |
|
|
3.2 |
|
14.6 |
|
26.7 |
|
| |
Note: Reasons for denials are based on 18 U.S.C. 922 and state laws.
...Not available or Not applicable.
aIncludes state prohibitors, multiple DUI's, non-NCIC warrants, and other unspecified criminal history disqualifiers.
bIncludes juveniles, persons dishonorably discharged from the Armed Services, persons who have renounced their U.S. citizenship, and other unspecified persons. |
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See also Methodology. |
