Gun Policy News
Few US States Follow Law to Prevent Mentally Ill People Buying Guns
17 February 2011
Associated Press
More than half the states are not complying with a post-Virginia Tech law that requires them to share the names of mentally ill people with the national background-check system to prevent them from buying guns, an Associated Press review has found.
The deadline for complying with the three-year-old law was last month. But nine states haven't supplied any names to the database. Seventeen others have sent in fewer than 25, meaning gun dealers around the U.S. could be... (GunPolicy.org)