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GAO-09-125R 1 (2009-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaannm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im T M WAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 May 21, 2009 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Chairman Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives The Honorable Robert C. Scott Chairman Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives The Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg United States Senate Subject: Firearm and Explosives Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records This letter formally transmits the enclosed briefing in response to your request. Specifically, you requested that we update our January 2005 report entitled, Gun Control and Terrorism: FBI Could Better Manage Firearm-Related Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records, GAO-05-127 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 19, 2005). Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and implementing regulations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and designated state and local criminal justice agencies use the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to conduct checks on individuals before federal firearms licensees (gun dealers) may transfer any firearm to an unlicensed individual.' Also, to assist the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the FBI conducts NICS background checks on individuals seeking to obtain a federal explosives license or permit.2 Under current law, there is no basis to automatically prohibit a person from 'Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub. L. No. 103-159, 107 Stat. 1536 (1993). 2 See Safe Explosives Act, Pub. L. No. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135, 2280 (2002) (Title XI, Subtitle C of the Homeland Security Act of 2002), as amended. GAO-09-125R NICS and Terrorist Watch List Records

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