Firearms

BJS encourages comments through March 18, 2024, on the Proposed Extension of of a previously approved collection Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program. Your comments on BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the Federal Register, should respond to one or more of the [...]

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2019–2020 NCJ Number 306971 Author(s) Connor Brooks, BJS Statistician Date Published November 2023 Background Checks for Firearm Transfers Description This report is the 18th in a series produced by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. It details the number of applications for background checks for [...]