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Email Your U.S. Senators to Strengthen Brady Background Checks
Bill to Improve the Brady Law's National Instant Check System (NICS) Moves to Senate
Dear Bryan,
Today (Thursday), the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider a bill to make it harder for criminals and other dangerous people to buy firearms, by strengthening the Brady background check system.
This means that hundreds of thousands of prohibited purchasers not currently in the Brady Law’s National Instant Checks System (NICS) would be added to the system and thus will be blocked from buying guns. It is estimated that 25% of felony convictions and 90% of disqualifying mental health records are currently not in NICS.
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Urge Them to Strengthen Brady Background Checks
The bill provides funding incentives to states to improve their reporting of currently prohibited buyers to NICS of both felons and people adjudicated mentally ill. A similar bill was passed by the House in June, and now we need the Senate to act.
The Brady Law, which mandates that federally licensed firearms dealers conduct background checks on prospective gun purchasers, has prevented nearly 1.4 million prohibited persons from buying guns. However, a background check is only as good as the records it can search.
The Virginia Tech massacre, where 32 students and teachers were killed in the worst mass shooting in American history, is a horrific example of the dangers of this data gap. The killer was able to buy guns even though he was legally prohibited from doing so, because the records indicating that he had been adjudicated mentally ill and dangerous were not in NICS to be searched when his background checks were conducted.
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By passing this bill, the Senate will greatly strengthen the enforcement of federal gun laws by providing new incentives to states to encourage the submission of important data into the Brady background check system.
Please encourage your Senators to strengthen Brady background checks today.
Sincerely,
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Sarah Brady, Chair