2017 NICS Denial Prosecution Numbers

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Jered
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2017 NICS Denial Prosecution Numbers

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8.6 million NICS transactions
112,000 denials
13,000 ATF investigations
12 prosecutions

I got the numbers from the GAO website.

So, tell me again why we need more gun laws if we don't enforce the ones that we already have?

There's about a 10% chance the ATF will investigate a NICS denial. There's less than 1/10 of 1% chance of one of those investigations resulting in a prosecution.
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Re: 2017 NICS Denial Prosecution Numbers

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One question I have about the denials is how many were false positives that were later determined to be eligible after a closer look?
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Re: 2017 NICS Denial Prosecution Numbers

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Exactly. According to my friend, a gunsmith, the majority of the time, it's just a hiccup.
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Re: 2017 NICS Denial Prosecution Numbers

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I found the 2016 FBI NICS report.

30,000 or so people have received UPINs.

I found this OIG report.

It's hard to find statistics about how many NICS transactions later result in approvals.
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