[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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