NICS Review Act of 2021 2021-02-11 Introduced in House NICS Review Act of 2021

This bill revises the amount of time that the national instant criminal background check system retains certain information about an approved firearm transaction.

Currently, identifying information about an approved firearm purchaser must be destroyed within 24 hours. This bill requires identifying information about an approved firearm purchaser to be retained for at least 90 days before it can be destroyed.

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