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The FBI has issued record numbers of seizure notices to take guns from folks who should have failed background checks but were allowed to purchase guns when the FBI failed to respond in three days to the checks. 6,300 in 2020, 5,200 in 2021 – with the article subtext that the rate is skyrocketing. It’s worth noting that the number of checks also skyrocketed, 39,000,000 in 2020 alone.\u00a0 (For comparison, the previous high was 5,056 in 2000. so a 24% increase in 20 years. Not sure a bit over 1% a year increase is a spike when the number of background checks total rose from 8.5 million to 39 million!)<\/p>\n
While the numbers accounted for a small percentage of the 8.5 million transactions vetted by the NICS system that year, the FBI described the potential “public safety risk” in stark detail at that time.<\/p>\n
The 2000 annual NICS’ operations report recounted an incident in which a Cleveland-area dealer proceeded with a gun sale to a gang member when the required background investigation was not completed within the three-day period.<\/p>\n
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When the Biden administration talks about closing the “background check loophole”,\u00a0 this is what they are talking about. Hey, if they actively trying to take back guns which shouldn’t have been delivered in the first place, I guess that’s good.<\/p>\n
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More on the gunz subject: Reuters reports that the DOJ is pushing for tougher sentences for “straw purchasers” .<\/p>\n
Gary Restaino, the top federal prosecutor in Arizona, told a bipartisan panel in Washington, D.C., that increasing penalties for straw purchasers – people who buy guns for individuals barred from owning them or for those who do not want to be tracked – would “reflect the danger their conduct poses to public safety.”<\/p>\n
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is obliged to increase sentences for those defendants under a provision of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the major gun safety measure that President Joe Biden signed into law in June.<\/p>\n
The bill came together just weeks after two mass shootings, one in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children at an elementary school and another racist attack targeting Black people in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Anyone hear of a straw purchaser involved in either of those shootings? Buehler? Buehler?<\/p>\n
He argued that under the commission’s proposal, straw purchasers, who by definition have no previous criminal history, would often face a sentencing range that on the low end was just one month longer than they could get under current policy.<\/p>\n
But Leslie Scott, an attorney with the Federal Public and Community Defenders’ Sentencing Resource Counsel project, urged the commission to “take a pause” and conduct further study before implementing changes that could exacerbate racial disparities in sentencing.<\/p>\n
She added rushed changes to the guidelines would disproportionately impact Black communities. The commission in a report last year found that more than half of people sentenced in 2021 under the main firearms sentencing guideline were Black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n