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handle is hein.crs/crsmthabfzu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CRS INSIGHT Orlando Nightclub Mass Shooting: Gun Checks and Terrorist Watchlists June 16, 2016 (IN10509) Related Author * William J Krous William J. Krouse, Specialist in Domestic Security and Crime Policy (wkrouse crs loc gov, 7-2225) On June 12, 2016, an armed assailant killed 49 people and wounded over 50 others in an Orlando, FL nightclub. After a three-hour stand-off with police, the assailant was killed by police. It is unknown at this time whether any of the victims may have been killed in the crosfire between the police and the assailant during a hostagerescue operation. The deceased assailant was armed with a and a_9mm G.ockemia m istl. Assailant's Gun Check The alleged assailant, 29-year-old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, acquired these firearms from a federally licensed gun dealer about to.Eek prior to the shooting. In so doing, he underwent and passed a hac grond check through a computer system administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), known as the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). In addition, the alleged assailant was employed as a state-licensed security guard and held a concealed carrv weapons (CCW) permit. It has been reported that the state-issued security guard license might have allowed the alleged assailant to purchase these firearms with minimal background check requirements. Neither the Florida-issued security guard license nor his CCW permit would have exempted him from the federally required NICS background check, however. Gun Checks and Terrorist Watchlists Pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (P.L 103-159), in November 1998 the FBI activated NICS for the purposes of determining an individual's firearms transfer and possession eligibility whenever an unlicensed individual seeks to acquire a firearm from a federally licensed gun dealer. Federal law enumerates several grounds that disqualify someone from firearms eligibility. However, being a known or suspected terrorist is not a federal firearms eligibility disqualifier. Following the September I. 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI modified its NICS background check procedures to search an additional file in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) that includes terrorist watchlist records. Today, this NCIC file is known as the Known and Appropriately Suspected Terrorist (KST) File. Since February 2004, information related to the subjects of NICS-generated terrorist watchlist matches has been passed on to the FBI Counterterrorism

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