NICS Point of Contact States & Territories
NICS Point of Contact States & Territories
Full Participants (13): States that conduct NICS checks for all firearms purchases and/or for alternate permits for handguns and long guns:
| California* Colorado Connecticut Florida Hawaii* Illinois |
Nevada New Jersey Oregon Pennsylvania Tennessee Utah* Virginia |
Partial Participants (8): States that perform checks for handgun permits, while the FBI performs NICS checks for long gun purchases:
| Iowa* Michigan* |
Nebraska* North Carolina* |
States that perform NICS checks for handgun purchases, while the FBI performs NICS checks for long gun purchases:
| Maryland New Hampshire |
Washington Wisconsin |
Nonparticipants (35): The FBI performs NICS checks on both handguns and long guns for:
| Alabama Alaska* American Samoa Arizona* Arkansas* Delaware Georgia* Guam Idaho* Indiana Kansas Kentucky* Louisiana Maine Massachusetts Minnesota Mississippi* Missouri Montana* |
New Mexico New York North Dakota* Northern Mariana Islands Ohio Oklahoma Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina* South Dakota Texas* Vermont U.S. Virgin Islands West Virginia Wyoming* Washington, DC |
*denotes states that have an ATF-qualified alternate permit
Updated 07/01/08
