Printz v. United States | law case | Britannica (original) (raw)

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impact on Brady Law

• In Brady Law
  …by the Supreme Court in Printz v. United States (1997). The NICS was created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and became operational on November 30, 1998.
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role of Scalia

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  In Antonin Scalia: Judicial philosophy
  , his majority opinion in Printz v. United States (1997), in which he held that the federal government could not require state and local law-enforcement agencies to perform background checks on prospective gun owners; (2) the checks and balances imposed by the separation of powers—e.g., his lone dissent in _Morrison_…
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