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billh58

(6,642 posts)
5. I'll save you some trouble:
Fri Sep 9, 2016, 07:44 PM
Sep 2016
Convicted felons account for the largest share of those rejected; persons with a record of domestic violence, while growing in recent years, are a distant second.

Lying about one’s criminal history or background on the form to purchase guns is fairly common - and a federal offense - but hardly anyone is ever prosecuted. Among the 67,000 people who failed background checks conducted directly by the FBI in 2009, fewer than 70 ever faced criminal charges, a Justice Department-funded study published in April found. Justice officials cited a lack of resources.

What’s more, several thousand people each year who are prohibited from buying guns are cleared to buy them anyway. That is because gaps in the FBI criminal history data base prevent examiners from completing background checks within the three-day time limit set by federal law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-center-for-public-integrity/badly-flawed-background-c_b_882753.html

Which political party has controlled the federal budget, including FBI resources for the prosecution of felons attempting to purchase deadly weapons, for most of the past few decades?

Which right-wing lobby group has opposed every effort to expand and improve the background checks system to make it more workable? If you answered the gun lobby, you would be correct.

The extreme right-wing gun lobby owns enough corrupt lawmakers to stifle federal legislation aimed at correcting these flaws in our legal system, mainly for the purpose of continuing to use the "enforce existing laws" NRA/ILA/GOA talking point as a marketing tool.

So who are you really taking to in this post? The right-wing gun lobby who surreptitiously controls the federal budget, or the people who are calling for issues like these to not only be fixed, but strengthened? The mere fact that background checks prevented the sale of ANY guns is a positive measure.

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Right, I favor UBC, but.. MicaelS Sep 2016 #1
I don't know. billh58 Sep 2016 #2
AFAIK, the number is quite low. MicaelS Sep 2016 #3
Which entity or agency billh58 Sep 2016 #4
I'll save you some trouble: billh58 Sep 2016 #5
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