# Brady Law—Nat'l Instant Criminal Check System (NICS); Transfer of firearm without checking NICS — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Brady Law, agency is DOJ; violation is Brady Law—Nat'l Instant Criminal Check System (NICS); Transfer of firearm without checking NICS; statutory authority is 18 U.S.C. 922(t)(5); maximum penalty is 10,831, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** DOJ _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Brady Law—Nat'l Instant Criminal Check System (NICS); Transfer of firearm without checking NICS _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 18 U.S.C. 922(t)(5) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 10,831 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/18/922> 18 U.S.C. 922(t)(5) | Brady Law—Nat'l Instant Criminal Check System (NICS); Transfer of firearm without checking NICS | | 10,557 | 10,831

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-85/section-85.5

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
Part of [Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies](https://referencesource.org/federal-civil-penalty-maximums/).