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Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) The Superintendent of the Delaware State Police shall create a Voluntary Firearms Do-Not-Sell Registry in which an applicant may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from purchasing a firearm. No person may knowingly sell or transfer a firearm to an individual enrolled on the Registry.
(b) The Superintendent shall develop a process and forms for inclusion on, and removal from, the Registry to be maintained by the Delaware State Police within DELJIS. The Superintendent must make the forms for inclusion and removal available by download through the Delaware State Police website and require the applicant to provide, at a minimum, the following information:
(1) Name.
(2) Address.
(3) Date of birth.
(4) Other contact information specified by the Superintendent.
(5) Signature of applicant.
(c) The form for inclusion onto the Registry shall inform the applicant of the process for removal from the Registry.
(d) An applicant requesting inclusion onto the Registry shall deliver the completed form in person to a law-enforcement agency.
(1) The law-enforcement agency shall verify the applicant's identity before accepting the form and may not accept a form from someone other than the applicant named in the form.
(2) Upon receipt of the application and verification of the applicant's identity, the law-enforcement agency must add the applicant's name to the Registry via DELJIS within 12 hours.
(e) An individual who is added to the Registry may not request removal from the Registry unless the individual has been on the Registry for at least 30 days.
(f) An individual requesting removal from the Registry shall deliver a completed removal form in person to any law-enforcement agency within the State. Once a law-enforcement agency receives a removal form, the law-enforcement agency must verify the individual's identity and remove the individual from the Registry no sooner than 30 days after the law-enforcement agency receives the removal form.
(g) All forms and records created in accordance with this section are not public records under Delaware's Freedom of Information Act [Chapter 100 of Title 29]. The Registry is subject to the same confidentiality protections that are given to information and records pertaining to the Firearm Transaction Approval Program under § 8573 of this title.
(h) All law-enforcement agency websites must post in a conspicuous place information about the Voluntary Firearms Do-Not-Sell Registry along with downloadable forms for inclusion and removal from the Registry.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Delaware Code Title 11. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 9802. Voluntary Firearms Do-Not-Sell Registry - last updated January 01, 2026 | https://codes.findlaw.com/de/title-11-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/de-code-sect-11-9802/
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