Under which this service is provided to you. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018Ĭable News Network. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Roof also displayed racist symbols on Facebook ( FB), but the FBI said that kind of information would not come up in a background check, since the database includes information on prohibited persons as defined in the Gun Control Act. Though he had been arrested earlier this year for trespassing and drug possession, he apparently met the legal criteria. 45-caliber Glock at a gun store in Charleston, where he would have been required to pass a background check. "It is in our power to do something about it." "At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries," he said, in a speech. Related: Gun violence costs taxpayers $500 million The President's effort came after the killing of 26 children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut.Īfter this week's gun violence at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white man killed nine African Americans in a racially motivated attack, Obama hinted that he might try again. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, and President Obama tried to eliminate the gun show loophole in 2013, with a bill that would have expanded background checks. You won't find them in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., where gun laws are far more restrictive. The web site lists 29 gun shows scheduled for this coming Father's Day weekend, from Las Vegas and Philadelphia to Hickory, N.C. Most Americans live somewhere near a gun show. "More than 100 million such checks have been made in the last decade, leading to more than 700,000 denials," the FBI says on its web site.īut gun buyers don't have to go through a background check when they make a purchase at a gun show. However, denials are rare, occurring less than 1% of the time. If a purchaser has been convicted of a felony, or misdemeanors with sentences exceeding two years, or has been declared "mentally defective" by a court, then he or she won't pass the background check. NICS scans federal databases like the National Crime Information Center and Interstate Identification Index for information. The background check can just take minutes. The form also asks questions such as: *Have you ever been convicted of a felony? *Have you ever been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence? *Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any other depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? *Are you a fugitive from justice? *Have you ever been committed to a mental institution? The store then calls the FBI, which runs a background check on the person through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, also known as NICS. A social security number is only "optional," though it's recommended. Required information includes: name, address, place of birth, race and citizenship. There, gun buyers have to fill out a form from the ATF, or the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. A background check is conducted only in store purchases.
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