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    • National Instant Criminal Background Check System (FBI)

    Metadata Updated: February 13, 2023

    The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a national system that provides the timely and accurate determination of a person's eligibility to possess firearms and/or explosives in accordance with the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention

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    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023
    Publisher Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-02-27T00:00:00
    Data Last Modified 2017-02-27T00:00:00
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Bureau Code 011:10
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Program Code 011:044
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of Justice > Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 09d4cdcd259f942a6bafeef34d8eda98256485a9
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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