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Broken Records

How America's Faulty Background Check System Allows Criminals to Get Guns

Author: Jim Kessler
In The Culture Program
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Abstract

Broken Records uses data culled from the Department of Justice and various state sources and gives failing grades to 22 states for having grossly inadequate criminal, domestic violence, and mental disability records. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REPORT WAS RELEASED IN JANUARY 2002 AND HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE.

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Broken Records uses data culled from the Department of Justice and various state sources and gives failing grades to 22 states for having grossly inadequate criminal, domestic violence, and mental disability records.

Over a 30 month period, 10,000 felons and others prohibited from buying guns were able to pass background checks and get firearms because most states have failed to adequately automate background check records.

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