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Badly flawed background check system fails to contain firearms sales

By Rick Schmitt

Center story detailed loopholes in current system

Excerpts from this story referencing "National Instant Criminal Background Check System":

"… d checks on gun purchases, but a host of obstacles remain to improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that grew out of the landmark Brady Act back in the early 1990s. The deal …"

"… w. Four years ago, after the massacre at Virginia Tech exposed gaps in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), Congress and the Bush administration took decisive action to shore …"

On anniversary of Virginia Tech shooting, law to close loophole hasn't accomplished much

By Gordon Witkin

Federal law designed to improve access to mental health records has proved disappointing.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Seung-Hui Cho":

"… ms was detailed last spring by a Center for Public Integrity investigation. …"