Universal Background Check Laws in North Dakota

Last updated December 31, 2023 .

North Dakota law does not require a background check on firearm sales or transfers by unlicensed sellers.

The state does have certain prohibitions on transferring firearms to prohibited people. North Dakota prohibits supplying a firearm or ammunition to a person the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe is prohibited from possessing them under state law.¹ North Dakota prohibits any person from transferring a handgun to any such a person.²

North Dakota prohibits any person from delivering to or providing a penitentiary inmate with a firearm intended to be used for an assault or to damage property.³ It also prohibits knowingly supplying a firearm for use in a riot.⁴

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Notes

N.D. Cent. Code § 62.1-02-08; see also N.D. Cent. Code § 62.1-02-01 (listing the types of individuals who are prohibited from possessing firearms under state law). North Dakota also prohibits procuring or receiving a firearm or ammunition for such a person.((N.D. Cent. Code § 62.1-02-08.
N.D. Cent. Code § 62.1-02-02.
N.D. Cent. Code § 12-47-21(6).
N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-25-02.