Missed FBI deadlines may have made it easier to purchase guns, Roll Call reports.
Roll Call obtained previously unpublished data, which is not included in the FBI’s annual public report on gun background checks, that showed the FBI has left hundreds of thousands of gun background checks unfinished for years, despite an internal 2015 report that flagged the problem and suggested solutions. The incomplete checks result from an 88-day deadline after which the FBI must purge the checks from its computers, even if they aren’t done. Last year, for example, the agency processed 8.2 million checks, but 201,323 were purged.
Little has reportedly changed since the 2015 report — between 2014 and 2019, the FBI failed to complete over 1.1 million checks. The number even rose in 2016 and 2017 before dipping back down in 2018.
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Missed FBI deadlines may have made it easier to purchase guns, Roll Call reports.
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Roll Call obtained previously unpublished data, which is not included in the FBI’s annual public report on gun background checks, that showed the FBI has left hundreds of thousands of gun background checks unfinished for years, despite an internal 2015 report that flagged the problem and suggested solutions. The incomplete checks result from an 88-day deadline after which the FBI must purge the checks from its computers, even if they aren’t done. Last year, for example, the agency processed 8.2 million checks, but 201,323 were purged.
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Little has reportedly changed since the 2015 report — between 2014 and 2019, the FBI failed to complete over 1.1 million checks. The number even rose in 2016 and 2017 before dipping back down in 2018.
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