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More ask for guns and get them, U.S. reports
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More ask for guns and get them, U.S. reports
September 23, 2002
REUTERS
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans seeking to buy handguns and rifles rose 3 percent last year to nearly 8 million, of which 1.9 percent were rejected, the Justice Department said Sunday.
Last year's rejection rate for gun applications -- for reasons ranging from felony convictions to outstanding warrants -- was little changed from the 2 percent of 7.7 million applications in 2000, and was slightly lower than the 2.2-percent rejection rate for 1994-2001, the department said.
Nearly 38 million applications have been received since the 1994 enactment of the Brady Act, which requires criminal background checks on prospective buyers of firearms from federally licensed dealers. Of those, 840,000 were rejected, the department said.
Slightly more than half of the applications for firearms permits or transfers are submitted directly to the FBI for processing while the rest are submitted to state or local agencies.
About 58 percent of the 152,000 rejections last year were because the applicants had been indicted on or convicted of a felony, and 14 percent were because of convictions on domestic violence misdemeanor charges or restraining orders, it said.
Other reasons for rejection included state or local prohibitions, outstanding fugitive warrants, mental illness, drug addition, dishonorable discharge from the armed services and illegal immigrant status, the department said.
About 1,900 unsuccessful applicants were arrested last year in seven states.
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/gun23_20020923.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
September 23, 2002
REUTERS
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans seeking to buy handguns and rifles rose 3 percent last year to nearly 8 million, of which 1.9 percent were rejected, the Justice Department said Sunday.
Last year's rejection rate for gun applications -- for reasons ranging from felony convictions to outstanding warrants -- was little changed from the 2 percent of 7.7 million applications in 2000, and was slightly lower than the 2.2-percent rejection rate for 1994-2001, the department said.
Nearly 38 million applications have been received since the 1994 enactment of the Brady Act, which requires criminal background checks on prospective buyers of firearms from federally licensed dealers. Of those, 840,000 were rejected, the department said.
Slightly more than half of the applications for firearms permits or transfers are submitted directly to the FBI for processing while the rest are submitted to state or local agencies.
About 58 percent of the 152,000 rejections last year were because the applicants had been indicted on or convicted of a felony, and 14 percent were because of convictions on domestic violence misdemeanor charges or restraining orders, it said.
Other reasons for rejection included state or local prohibitions, outstanding fugitive warrants, mental illness, drug addition, dishonorable discharge from the armed services and illegal immigrant status, the department said.
About 1,900 unsuccessful applicants were arrested last year in seven states.
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/gun23_20020923.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878