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Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
A Year After New Law Enacted, Progress on Brady Background Checks, but Still a Long Way to Go
January 24th, 2009
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy in April 2007, nearly all elected officials, as well as the public, agreed about one important policy change: the Federal Brady background check system needed strengthening to make it harder for dangerous people like the Virginia Tech killer to purchase dangerous weapons. The problem was, and is, simple and startling: the total number of disqualifying mental illness records in the system is estimated to be less than 20 percent of the estimated 2.6 million such records that ought to be in the system, according to analysis by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). In addition, as of early last year it was estimated...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-24)
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