Besides, mass killers could always find an alternative way of securing the needed weaponry, even if they had to steal from family members or friends. Certainly, people cannot be denied their Second Amendment rights just because they look strange or act in an odd manner. They would not be disqualified from purchasing their weapons legally.

ДЄccording to the nationвЂ™s leading criminologist specializing in the study of murder, вЂњMost mass murderers do not have criminal records or a history of psychiatric hospitalization. The terrorists who attacked in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015, used firearms they acquired through a straw purchaser. вЂќ В Criminals defeat the background check system by getting guns through straw purchasers. ДЄTF has said, вЂњThose that steal firearms commit violent crimes with stolen guns, transfer stolen firearms to others who commit crimes, and create an unregulated secondary market for firearms, including a market for those who are prohibited by law from possessing a gun.вЂќ ДЄTF has reported, вЂњhe most frequent type of trafficking channel identified in ATF investigations is straw purchasing from federally licensed firearms dealers. ДЄccording to the DOJ, вЂњabout 1.4 million guns, or an annual average of 232,400, were stolen during burglaries and other property crimes in the six-year period from 2005 through 2010.вЂќ The FBIвЂ™s stolen firearm file contained over two million reports as of March 1995.

ДЄ study by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of federal armed career criminals showed that while 79 percent had acquired their firearms from вЂњoff the streetвЂќ sales, вЂњcriminal acts,вЂќ and relatives, only six percent had acquired firearms from dealers or non-dealers at gun shows and flea markets. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), 77 percent of criminals in state prison for firearm crimes get firearms through theft, on the black market, from a drug dealer or вЂњon the street,вЂќ or from family members and friends, while less than one percent get firearms from dealers or non-dealers at gun shows. However, background checks donвЂ™t stop criminals from stealing firearms, getting them on the black market, or getting them from straw purchasers. Background checks for firearms have been conducted through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) since November 1998. Dealers must document all firearms they receive.ДЇederal law requires all firearm dealers to be licensed and to initiate a background check before transferring a firearm to a non-dealer, regardless of where the transfer takes place. Federal law prohibits anyone- licensed firearm dealer or not-from shipping a firearm to a person who lives in another state, unless that person is also a dealer. Federal law is the same, regardless of how people communicate about selling/buying a firearm.

There is no вЂњgun show loophole.вЂќ Federal law is the same, regardless of where a firearm sale takes place.

Federal law requires firearm dealers, regardless of location, to initiate a background check before selling or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person who is not a dealer.

The terrorists who attacked in San Bernardino in 2015 got firearms from a straw purchaser who passed a background check.

ATF has said that nearly half of illegally trafficked firearms originate with 'straw purchasers'-people who pass background checks to buy firearms for criminals.

Most mass shooters, including those inspired by Islamic terrorist groups, pass background checks to acquire firearms.

Less than one percent get guns at gun shows.

Federal studies have repeatedly found that persons imprisoned for firearm crimes get their firearms mostly through theft, the black market, or family members or friends. Background checks donвЂ™t necessarily stop criminals from getting firearms.NRA opposes expanding firearm background check systems, because background checks donвЂ™t stop criminals from getting firearms, because some proposals to do so would deprive individuals of due process of law, and because NRA opposes firearm registration.

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