“We were all very surprised to find that despite a U.S. prohibition on purchase of weapons by the mentally ill that dates back to the 1960s,” Kaine said, “the majority of states report no data on mental health adjudications in the national database.”
Even in states with these stricter mental health restrictions, gun buyers can sidestep background checks by obtaining firearms from a private seller or at a gun show from a “private” individual or “collector.”
Those purchases account for about half of the guns sold in the United States each year. Efforts by Virginia lawmakers to close this gun-show loophole have been repeatedly blocked by gun-rights advocates.” IHT
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