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January 8, 2008
 National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendment
Act of 2007 (HR 2640)
This law offers more than $1 billion in grant money to states to improve
their tracking and reporting of those prohibited from purchasing a gun to
the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), including those
persons with mental illnesses.
The original NICS bill has specified the types of behavioral health
issues that would bar gun possession; these apply to any person who has
been found by a court, commission, or other lawful authority to be
criminally insane, unfit to stand trial, or otherwise mentally
incompetent. This new law authorizes $250 million a year for five years
to states to mitigate the costs of providing such records. It also
withholds federal crime fighting funds if the states do not cooperate.
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