There is a lot of misinformation circulating about
background checks for gun ownership.
Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act—which
created the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—all
federal firearms licensees are required to conduct a background check for all
firearms transactions, even if they sell the firearm at a gun show. This is to
make sure that the gun isn’t being sold to a person who is prohibited from
purchasing a gun under Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18 of the United States
Code, which would include convicted felons, people who have been adjudicated to
be severely mentally ill, and people who have been convicted of a domestic
violence offense.
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), and scores of others have repeated the mantra
that approximately 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted through
private sales at gun shows and are not subject to a criminal background check.
This has become known as the “gun show loophole.”…… this 40 percent figure
comes from a 1997 report by the National Institute of
Justice, a research agency within the Department of Justice, and was based on a telephone survey sample of just 251
people who acquired firearms in 1993 and 1994. This was years before the NICS
system went into effect….. ToRead More…..
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