In the past five years, four hundred and seventy thousand people have been barred in the US from buying guns, because of some type of criminal activity found in background checks. In 1997, Eddie Harris killed his wife, Charlotte Harris, with a shotgun. Prior to the shooting, Charlotte had three separate restraining orders against her husband after he threatened to kill her. Today, federal gun legislation is in place to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers like... (GunPolicy.org)