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34 U.S.C. § 40903 — Disposition records automation and transmittal improvement grants
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**(a) Grants authorized** From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make grants to each State, consistent with State plans for the integration, automation, and accessibility of criminal history records, for use by the State court system to improve the automation and transmittal of criminal history dispositions, records relevant to determining whether a person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments, to Federal and State record repositories in accordance with sections 40912 and 40913 of this title and the National Criminal History Improvement Program.
**(b) Grants to Indian tribes** Up to 5 percent of the grant funding available under this section may be reserved for Indian tribal governments for use by Indian tribal judicial systems.
**(c) Use of funds** Amounts granted under this section shall be used by the State court system only—
(1) to carry out, as necessary, assessments of the capabilities of the courts of the State for the automation and transmission of arrest and conviction records, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State record repositories; and
(2) to implement policies, systems, and procedures for the automation and transmission of arrest and conviction records, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State record repositories.
**(d) Eligibility** To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a State shall certify, to the satisfaction of the Attorney General, that the State has implemented a relief from disabilities program in accordance with [section 40915 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-sectio
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**(a) Grants authorized** From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make grants to each State, consistent with State plans for the integration, automation, and accessibility of criminal history records, for use by the State court system to improve the automation and transmittal of criminal history dispositions, records relevant to determining whether a person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments, to Federal and State record repositories in accordance with sections 40912 and 40913 of this title and the National Criminal History Improvement Program.
**(b) Grants to Indian tribes** Up to 5 percent of the grant funding available under this section may be reserved for Indian tribal governments for use by Indian tribal judicial systems.
**(c) Use of funds** Amounts granted under this section shall be used by the State court system only—
(1) to carry out, as necessary, assessments of the capabilities of the courts of the State for the automation and transmission of arrest and conviction records, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State record repositories; and
(2) to implement policies, systems, and procedures for the automation and transmission of arrest and conviction records, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments to Federal and State record repositories.
**(d) Eligibility** To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a State shall certify, to the satisfaction of the Attorney General, that the State has implemented a relief from disabilities program in accordance with [section 40915 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40915&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(e) Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General to carry out this section $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2009, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2012, and $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2013.
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**(a)** It shall be unlawful—
(1) for any person—
(A) except a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer, to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms, or in the course of such business to ship, transport, or receive any firearm in interstate or foreign commerce; or
(B) except a licensed importer or licensed manufacturer, to engage in the business of importing or manufacturing ammunition, or in the course of such business, to ship, transport, or receive any ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce;
(2) for any importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector licensed under the provisions of this chapter to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce any firearm to any person other than a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector, except that—
(A) this paragraph and subsection (b)(3) shall not be held to preclude a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector from returning a firearm or replacement firearm of the same kind and type to a person from whom it was received; and this paragraph shall not be held to preclude an individual from mailing a firearm owned in compliance with Federal, State, and local law to a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector;
(B) this paragraph shall not be held to preclude a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer from depositing a firearm for conveyance in the mails to any officer, employee, agent, or watchman who, pursuant to the provisions of [section 1715 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1715&num=0&edition=prelim), is eligible to receive through the mails pistols, revolvers,
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**(a) In general** Beginning 3 years after January 8, 2008, a State shall be eligible to receive a waiver of the 10 percent matching requirement for National Criminal History Improvement Grants under [section 40301 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40301&num=0&edition=prelim) if the State is in compliance with an implementation plan established under subsection (b) or provides at least 90 percent of the information described in subsection (c). The length of such a waiver shall not exceed 2 years.
**(b) State estimates**
(1) **Initial state estimate**
(A) *In general* — To assist the Attorney General in making a determination under subsection (a) of this section, and under [section 40914 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40914&num=0&edition=prelim), concerning the compliance of the States in providing information to the Attorney General for the purpose of receiving a waiver under subsection (a) of this section, or facing a loss of funds under [section 40914 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40914&num=0&edition=prelim), by a date not later than 180 days after January 8, 2008, each State shall provide the Attorney General with a reasonable estimate, as calculated by a method determined by the Attorney General and in accordance with [section 40914(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section40914/d&num=0&edition=prelim), of the number of the records described in subparagraph (C) applicable to such State that concern persons who are prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm under subsection (g) or (n) of [section 922 of title 18](https://uscode.
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TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
§ 40911
(1) Approximately 916,000 individuals were
prohibited from purchasing a firearm for fail-
ing a background check between November 30,
1998, (the date the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System (NICS) began oper-
ating) and December 31, 2004.
(2) From November 30, 1998, through Decem-
ber 31, 2004, nearly 49,000,000 Brady background
checks were processed through NICS.
(3) Although most Brady background checks
are processed through NICS in seconds, many
background checks are delayed if the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) does not have
automated access to complete information
from the States concerning persons prohibited
from possessing or receiving a firearm under
Federal or State law.
(4) Nearly 21,000,000 criminal records are not
accessible by NICS and millions of criminal
records are missing critical data, such as ar-
rest dispositions, due to data backlogs.
(5) The primary cause of delay in NICS back-
ground checks is the lack of—
(A) updates and available State criminal
disposition records; and
(B) automated access to information con-
cerning persons prohibited from possessing
or receiving a firearm because of mental ill-
ness, restraining orders, or misdemeanor
convictions for domestic violence.
(6) Automated access to this information
can be improved by—
(A) computerizing information relating to
criminal history, criminal dispositions, men-
tal illness, restraining orders, and mis-
demeanor convictions for domestic violence;
or
(B) making such information available to
NICS in a usable format.
(7) Helping States to automate these records
will reduce delays for law-abiding gun pur-
chasers.
(8) On March 12, 2002, the senseless shooting,
which took the lives of a
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