Gun-buyer background checks missing data

[jpak]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/gun-buyer-background-checks-missing-data-1289619.html

Ohio screens out mentally ill people who try to buy firearms, but the state isn’t reporting all known drug abusers to a national system that could prevent them from buying guns, a first-of-its-kind survey of 50 states found.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns said in its report “Fatal Gaps” that federal agencies and states in some cases ignore federal law and fail to report records about potentially dangerous people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.

Analysis of FBI data showed that millions of records of seriously mentally ill people and drug abusers are missing from the NICS database because of lax and inconsistent reporting among the states.

Mayors, including leaders from Dayton, Riverside and Brookville, are advocates for tougher federal, state and local legislation against illegal firearm sales and ownership.

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[RSillsbee]

1. Unrecc for dupe thread

and because it's jpak

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Data integrity begins at home

Mayors that care should make sure they are doing their part, not just pandering to the media on this.

[gejohnston]

3. known drug abuser?

People convicted or adjuticated, or just "he has long hair so me must be a pot head?" "he drives a pick up truck, so he must be an alcoholic?"

Analysis of FBI data showed that millions of records of seriously mentally ill people and drug abusers are missing from the NICS database because of lax and inconsistent reporting among the states.
Sounds like the states need to get their heads out of their asses rather than some criminal rich organization like MAIG whining about more laws.

[Hoyt]

7. Yes, someone needs to get their act together. Until then, we should suspend all gun sales.

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. Yes, let's restrict the sober due because those with DUI's

[Union Scribe]

4. Please read the forum before spamming, dupey dog. nt

[RSillsbee]

5. Are you kidding? He doesn't even read the stories he posts before posting them NT

[spin]

6. We know this and Obama has proposed ideas to improve the NICS system ...

which I have posted before and fully support.

http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_011e7118-8951-5206-a878-39bfbc9dc89d.html

[SteveM]

9. Ah, once again prohibitionists discover the costs...

Especially when one slops together one prohibition (drugs) to enable another prohibition (guns). And everyone is supposed to be happy with paying for all the bureaucracy, court cases stemming from being on a list despite no record of convictions, and finding out in the end that it didn't really accomplish much.

Oh! Canada.