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Arizona Aftermath: More Than Thirty States Have Failed to Enact Laws Requiring Mental Health Records to Be Submitted to the National Gun Background Check Database
January 28, 2011The following is being issued by Mayors Against Illegal Guns: "In December 2005, Seung-Hui Cho was found to present "an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness" by a special judge. This should have barred him from owning a gun under federal law, 18 U.S.C. section 922(g)(4), but, because his mental health records were never sent to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System ("NICS"), in March 2007 Cho was able to purchase the guns he used the following month to shoot and kill 32 people at Virginia Tech. Similarly, the Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, should have been barred from purchasing his shotgun less than a year after he was rejected from enlisting in the army due to drug abuse, but his record was not forwarded to NICS." Full release
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