Sentence examples for instant check from inspiring English sources

State police have been working towards a badly needed upgrade for the old Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) since 2001.

And out of more than 76,000 firearms purchases denied by the federal instant check system, only 62 were referred for prosecution and only 44 were actually prosecuted.

But in 1998, the five-day waiting period for handgun purchasers under that law expired and was replaced by a national instant check system.

While the 1993 Brady Violence Prevention Act required a five-day waiting period for a background check before firearms purchases, the provision expired in 1998 and checks are now done through the Internet-enabled National Instant Check System, in minutes.

Interestingly, the effects of the Brady Act on suicide seem to be caused in large part by the act's original waiting period requirements, which were phased out in late 1998 as states moved to an "instant check" system.

A touch-screen system that immediately printed a hard copy of the voter's choice that could be fed into an optical scanner (or hand-counted) would provide an instant check that could be stored for later use if necessary.

The national rejection rate has remained 2.4percentt since 1994, despite the Nov. 30, 1998, switch to computerized instant checks and the addition of checks on long-gun purchasers.

Alongside saying he was in favour of "instant checks at gun shows just like at gun stores and pawn shops," he also described nine "unreasonable" aspects of the legislation Democrats were pushing for at the time.

When I pressed one dealer on whether the instant checks were a burden, he shrugged and launched on a riff about a more vexing concern: a young man who had recently rented a gun to commit suicide.

Mr. Outwater says the instant checks have been adequate for the company's customers in the last two years -- no customer has actually sent an item to DNA Technologies for a DNA analysis.

But the modest delays (perhaps too modest, in an age of instant checks!) and inconveniences they introduce might well make a difference to someone in a downward spiral, giving them a chance to seek help, think again, or reconsider gun ownership entirely.