Title: Report: FBI ordered 4,000+ guns seized from buyers who failed background checks (ATF "retrieval requests") Source:
CBS News URL Source:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-is ... iled-background-checks-report/ Published:Dec 4, 2017 Author:CBS News Post Date:2017-12-05 19:50:54 by Hondo68 Ping List:*Bang List*Subscribe to *Bang List* Keywords:collect the weapons, Alcohol Tobacco Firearms, gun retrieval request Views:5675 Comments:37
Semi-automatic rifles are seen for sale in a gun shop in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 4, 2017. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty
The FBI issued 4,170 orders last year to seize guns from buyers who should have been blocked by the federal background check system, according to a new report from USA Today. The purchasers include people with criminal records, mental health issues or other red flags.
The report said that's the largest number of gun retrieval requests in 10 years, up from 2,892 requests the year before. It was not immediately clear how many of the guns were successfully recovered. Once the FBI issues a gun retrieval request, it's up to agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to actually collect the weapons.
"These are people who shouldn't have weapons in the first place, and it just takes one to do something that could have tragic consequences," David Chipman, a former ATF official who oversaw the retrieval program, told USA Today.
The actual number of guns involved may be higher, since more than one weapon could have been purchased in some transactions.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) system relies on state and local agencies as well as the military to accurately report criminal history and other information. But for years, they have failed to upload critical records with no consequences for failing to follow federal law, CBS News correspondent Paula Reid reported.
Poster Comment:
Jeff Sessions and Trump should just admit that they're busting pot smokers because it's easier than deporting illegal alien "Dream Students", or confiscating guns.
BTW, deporting illegal aliens is Constitutionally mandated and legal, but confiscating guns and busting drug users is NOT.
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Yup. Against the grain always. Just for kicks. No one -- not even he knows what he actually believes.
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I continually check in to "Liberty's Flame" and am appalled of and about the chit-chat channel's structure and lack of constraint of poster's perspective which includes yours.