The FBI Didn’t Finish Over 1 Million Gun Background Checks in Time to Stop a Sale in 2020 and 2021
This is rather discouraging. The gun laws we do have require much better execution than the article indicates we have. What if we did get rid of the gun show loophole nationwide? That would be many millions more purchase applications than we have now. How is gun control law supposed to work if the authorities drop the ball?
In another tightly related problem, it’s way too easy to get away with straw man purchases. So we have new legislation that’s needed.
We really should maintain the effort to keep guns out of the hands of bad guys. That makes us all safer and does little to no harm to those that follow the rules.
They like to say people not guns kill people. In Japan a gunman had to build his own guns. As a result, he was able to kill one man and had no way to turn assassination into a massacre.
There were over 1 million opportunities for someone to buy a gun from a licensed dealer without a completed background check in 2020 and 2021, according to an FBI report released last month.
In all, 1,002,274 background checks — or 4.2 percent — took longer than three business days in 2020 and 2021, a higher share than any other period since at least 2014, according to data compiled by NBC News. After the third business day, federal law allows dealers to sell weapons while the background check is still pending, which potentially puts weapons in the hands of people who can’t legally own a gun because of mental illness or their criminal history.
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