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Illinois governor signs law expanding background checks for potential gun owners
background check if they were buying guns at a licensed firearm shop or at a gun show in the state. Under the new law, gun owners are also required to report any lost or stolen firearms to the police within 72 hours. “Guns are a plague on too many of our communities,” Quinn, a Democrat,…
Read MoreMaine legislators ignore public and veto gun background checks law
Bangor Daily News. In doing so he made the clear choice to continue to make it easier for convicted criminals and domestic abusers to purchase guns. “LD 1240 would have changed no one’s right to buy, sell or own a gun. It would not even have mandated a background check for all gun sales. It…
Read MoreColorado expands gun background check program
Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat in a Western state where gun-control issues are politically sensitive, signed the law exactly eight months after a gunman shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and injuring about 70. In the meanwhile, the U.S. Senate has stepped back from some of its more controversial gun…
Read MoreStats show Virginia gun background checks effective
Virginia’s background check system could potentially serve as a national model due to it’s mental health adjudications. Stats this week showed that it is indeed a system to be advocated, having prevented more than 16,000 felons from buying guns since it began in 1989. State police records show a total 54,260 transactions have been denied during the…
Read MoreFBI proposes three gun control rules to strengthen background check process
proposed a three rule program with the goal to strengthen the background check process that’s in place for firearm background screening. The proposed rules are designed to make the instant criminal background check system more accessible to law enforcement, more useful and longer-lived. The three-point plan is laid out as follows: 1) Criminal justice agencies…
Read MoreObama calls for universal background checks on firearms
Obama is asking Congress to implement mandatory background checks for all gun purchases, including private sales; reinstate a ban on some assault-style weapons; ban high-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds; and crackdown on illicit weapons trafficking. He wants Congress to expand background checks on gun buyers to include private sales and is using his executive authority to…
Read MoreGun-sale background checks set record in December
background checks during the month, surpassing the mark set in November of 2 million checks. The number was up 49 percent over December 2011, when the FBI performed a then-record 1.9 million checks. Consumer demand for guns appears to have accounted for the uptick in activity. There were no changes in FBI background check procedures that…
Read MoreBlack Friday firearm sales cause outages at FBI background check center
Black Friday gun sales hit an all time record high this year with demand for new firearms so overwhelming that it caused outages at the FBI background check center on two separate occasions. Fueled by fears that the Obama administration will go after gun rights during their second term, the FBI reported 154,873 background check…
Read MoreGun background checks increase following Obama re-election
Background check was performed on Aurora shooter
last week. University of Colorado Denver spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery later disputed that James Holmes was banned from campus but confirmed that a criminal background check was done on him before the July 20 attack. She said a court gag order prevented her from discussing who requested the check, who performed it, and who saw the…
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