11.   The NRA has endorsed the instant check system.

12.   The waiting period was designed as an interim system, to be used until a national instant computerized check system is in place.

13.   Under the instant check system, vendors access a national database to see if the purchaser has a criminal record or other disqualifying factors.

14.   While the report praises the agency for revamping its background check system, it concludes that the INS must create uniform standards for citizenship applicants.

15.   First Union has been testing the check verification system, with CheckDebit to be available later this year.

16.   He also ordered a review to determine whether records are missing from the background check system.

17.   The American Health Care Association, a nursing home trade group, supports a federal criminal background check system for potential employees.

18.   The background check system is run by the FBI.

19.   The proposal is one of several that Ashcroft said he was taking to improve the instant-background check system required under provisions of the Brady law.

20.   With an upgraded check processing system, the agency expects to be caught up in the next few weeks.