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Tens of thousands with outstanding warrants purged from background check database for gun purchases
Sari Horwitz
9 hrs ago
Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year from the FBI criminal background check database that prohibits fugitives from justice from buying guns.
The names were taken out after the FBI in February changed its legal interpretation of "fugitive from justice" to say it pertains only to wanted people who have crossed state lines.
What that means is that those fugitives who were previously prohibited under federal law from purchasing firearms can now buy them, unless barred for other reasons.
Since the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was created in 1998, the background check system has prevented 1.5 million people from buying guns, including 180,000 denials to people who were fugitives from justice, according to government statistics.
It is unclear how many people may have bought guns since February who previously would have been prohibited from doing so.
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Tens of thousands with outstanding warrants purged from background check database for gun purchases (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2017
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FarPoint
(12,466 posts)1. I'm not surprised!
The entire mission is to sell guns, make obnoxious profits thus opens up opportunity for one on the " take" to accept the position and cash from the backroom.
Throck
(2,520 posts)2. The FBI sells guns?
More like a lazy ass bureaucratic institution.
Keep in mind, those that fail background checks are rarely prosecuted.
FBI bureaucracy needs an enema.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)3. Considering that the FBI falls under the Keebler Elf, I agree...
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,927 posts)4. Rarely? Basically never.
Average is maybe 40-50 prosecutions a year, out of 80,000-90,000 attempts by prohibited persons per year. The fbi has never really put much effort in this since NICS was created.