{"id":32538,"date":"2013-02-21T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/guns-and-background-check-woes.html"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:46:31","slug":"guns-and-background-check-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/guns-and-background-check-woes.html","title":{"rendered":"Guns and Background Check Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"
The headline here is a bit misleading. The issue is not background checks per se,<\/i> but the rules that say, "Well, if the background check is still pending in three days, the sale can provisionally go through, and if the check then comes back negative, we'll eventually send someone to track down the gun and recover it." \u00a0Also playing into that is inadequate resourcing of both the check and recovery organizations.<\/div>\n

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Background checks allow hundreds of gun sales a year to criminals<\/a>
\n Within the federal safety net meant to stop criminals from buying guns exists a component that allows them to legally walk away from gun stores with weapons in the bag.\n <\/p>\n

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The headline here is a bit misleading. The issue is not background checks per se, but the rules that say, "Well, if the background check is still pending in three days, the sale can provisionally go through, and if the check then comes back negative, we'll eventually send someone to track down the gun and … Continue reading “Guns and Background Check Woes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131034,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/well-maybe-i-get-to-sleep-in-an-extra-morning.html","url_meta":{"origin":32538,"position":0},"title":"Well, maybe I get to sleep in an extra morning","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jul-16 11:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugh. 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