[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 65183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27392]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1753]


Request for Public Comment on Proposed Revision of NIJ Standard 
0112.03 (Revision A), Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, Justice.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks feedback from 
the public on a proposed revision of NIJ Standard 0112.03 (Revision A), 
Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers, that specifies minimum 
performance requirements and test methods for semiautomatic service 
pistols used by U.S. law enforcement.

DATES: Comments must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on March 19, 
2019.
    How to Respond and What to Include: The draft document can be found 
here: https://nij.gov/topics/technology/standards-testing/pages/comment.aspx. The draft document is available in both Word and pdf 
formats. To submit comments, NIJ encourages commenters to fill out the 
comment template and send it in an email to the contact listed below 
with ``Draft NIJ Standard 0112.04, Semiautomatic Pistols for Law 
Enforcement'' in the subject line. Please provide contact information 
with the submission of comments. All materials submitted are subject to 
public release under the Freedom of Information Act, and will be shared 
with U.S. Government staff or U.S. Government contractors for 
evaluation purposes to revise the draft document. Comments should not 
include any sensitive personal information or commercially confidential 
information. If you wish to voluntarily submit confidential commercial 
information, but do not want it to be publicly released, you must mark 
that information prominently as ``CONFIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INFORMATION'' 
and NIJ will, to the extent permitted by law, withhold such information 
from public release.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Greene, Policy and Standards 
Division Director, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute 
of Justice, 810 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20531; telephone number: 
(202) 307-3384; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This draft document is a proposed revision 
of NIJ Standard 0112.03 (Revision A), Autoloading Pistols for Police 
Officers, published in 1999 and found here: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/249929.pdf. The final version of this document is 
anticipated to be published in late 2019 as NIJ Standard 0112.04, 
Semiautomatic Pistols for Law Enforcement. Its primary purpose will be 
for use by the NIJ Compliance Testing Program (CTP) for testing and 
evaluation of semiautomatic pistols submitted to the program for 
certification by NIJ. It will be used by both ballistics laboratories 
that test firearms and firearms manufacturers participating in the NIJ 
CTP. This standard will be included in the scope of accreditation used 
by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) to 
accredit ballistics laboratories. For more information on NIJ's 
voluntary standards, please visit https://www.nij.gov/standards. More 
information on the Autoloading Pistols CTP is available at https://justnet.org/compliant/Autoloading-Pistols.html.

David B. Muhlhausen,
Director, National Institute of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2018-27392 Filed 12-18-18; 8:45 am]
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