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Background Checks
Private transactions, exceedingly slow reviews, and laws that don’t recognize the threat from abusers all pose steep challenges to keeping firearms away from people who can’t legally possess them.
Politics
A very close reading of "Donald J. Trump on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms"
How blaming gun violence on the unpredictable actions of the mentally ill can sidetrack a push for more meaningful policy solutions.
Gun Policy
The Mental Health and Safe Communities Act would allow people who have been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital to purchase a gun immediately after their release.
“The establishment gun lobby supports gun control."
National Rifle Association
John Cornyn's legislation incentivizes reporting of mental health records to the federal background check system. Critics say it could also allow some former mental patients to immediately buy firearms.
More than 1.7 million people have been blocked from buying a gun after failing federal background checks since 1998. But some reasons for denial are more common than others.
Mass Shooting
Local sheriff, wife, tried to limit John Houser's access to firearms.
In Charleston, the president showed a renewed sense of urgency for gun reform. But what about his past efforts?