Firearms Licensing and Registration System

A system used by police departments of a US state, to issue firearms licenses, and for gun dealers to report gun sales to the controlling authority

In Brief

Solution overview

A statewide firearms licensing and registration system for a major US state. Currently, being used in 351 local police departments and the state police, the state's legal department and Firearms Records Bureau, all firearms dealer facilities, and individual license holders.

Impactful Results

The system streamlined online processing of firearms licenses, registrations, personal sale or transfer, loss or theft, inheritance, and weapons surrendered to police

Challenges

Difficulty of maintaining a legacy system

Drawbacks of paper based processes, and associated redundancy

Growing volume of applicants, licenses and registrations

Data quality concerns

Solution Capabilities

In a country with the largest number of firearms with citizens, the importance of a system to manage their licensing, and registration need not be emphasized

Standardized license and registration processing

Centralized real time view of firearms data

Open source, web based, and secure role-based access

Centrally maintained audit trail

Can support CAD/RMS Integration

Designed to support aggregated data analytics

Benefits

Real-time information querying and sharing about firearms licenses and registration history

Streamlined and standardized firearms licensing and registration processes

Supports a user base of 500+ and issues over 40,000 + licenses a year

Centralized firearms data repository

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