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The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, enacted in 1993, established controls on purchases of handguns and requires background checks on persons attempting to purchase handguns. Purchasers must be at least eighteen years of age and must be residents of the state in which they are making their puchase. In addition, the act probibits nine categories of persons from purchasing handguns:

• persons under indictment for or have been convicted of a felony;
• fugitives from justice;
• perons dishonorably discharged from the military;
• persons who have renounced their United States citizenship;
• persons convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence;
• persons subject to a restraining order;
• unlawful users of or those addicted to a controlled substance;
• persons adjudicated as mental defectives or committed to a mental institution;
• illegal aliens.

     To identify potential data sources to identify mental committments, addicted substance abusers, illegal aliens, and persons who have been the subject of a domestic violence restraining order for addition to APSIN, per Brady Bill restrictions on purchase of firearms by these noncriminals.

Products

• Brady Statute Data: Establishing Noncriminal Classifications for the Alaska Department of Public Safety -- Executive Summary. By Allan R. Barnes, Lawrence C. Trostle, and Cassie Atwell. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Report prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, 1997.
• Brady Statute Data: Adjudicated Mental Defectives and Involuntary Mental Commitments. By Cassie Atwell, Lawrence C. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Report prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, 1998.
• Brady Statute Data: Persons Who are Subject to a Court Order Restraining Them fromThreatening of Committing Acts of Domestic Violence or Abuse. By Cassie Atwell, Allan R. Barnes, and Lawrence C. Trostle. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Report prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, 1998.
• Brady Statute Data: Persons who are Unlawful Users of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substances. By Lawrence C. Trostle, Cassie Atwell, and Allan R. Barnes. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Report prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, 1998.
• Brady Statute Data: Persons who are Illegally or Unlawfully in the United States. By Cassie Atwell, Lawrence C. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Report prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, 1998.
• Brady Statute Data: Establishing Noncriminal Classifications for the Alaska Department of Public Safety. By Cassie Atwell, Lawrence C. Trostle, and Allan R. Barnes. Report prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, 1997, 1998. This document includes all the reports listed above.

Press releases

• "Brady Bill Grant": Receipt of a $175,000 grant to examine retention of data on non-criminal groups falling under the provisions of the Brady firearm control law (June 26, 1996).

Articles

• "The Brady Act in Alaska" by Cassie Atwell. Alaska Justice Forum 16(1), Spring 1999.
• "Notes on the Brady Bill (A Viewpoint)" by Lawrence C. Trostle. Alaska Justice Forum 16(1), Spring 1999.

Conference papers

• "Brady Statute Data: Adjudicated Mental Defectives and Involuntary Mental Commitments." By Lawrence C. Trostle, Allan R. Barnes, and Cassie Atwell. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators, Reno, October 1997.
• "Brady Statute Data: Individuals Who are Subject to a Court Order Restraining Them from Threatening or Committing Acts of Domestic Violence or Abuse." By Allan R. Barnes, Lawrence C. Trostle, and Cassie Atwell. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Albuquerque, March 1998.