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Apply now for funding to administer the program which—
provides national estimates of the total number of firearm purchase applications received and denied pursuant to the Brady Act and similar state laws
collects counts of firearm transfers and permit checks conducted by state and local agencies and combines them with the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) transaction data