Yahoo News is carrying a story that won't come as news to any of us, although the pro-gun crowd don't like to talk about it much.
This is an area where a big improvement can be achieved. Combined with the upcoming eventual legislation for background checks on all transfers, the benefits should be substantial.More than half the states are not complying with a post-Virginia Tech law that requires them to share the names of mentally ill people with the national background-check system to prevent them from buying guns, an Associated Press review has found.
The deadline for complying with the three-year-old law was last month. But nine states haven't supplied any names to the database. Seventeen others have sent in fewer than 25, meaning gun dealers around the U.S. could be running names of would-be buyers against a woefully incomplete list.
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