In this Mar 25, 2020, file photo semi-automatic handguns are displayed at shop in New Castle, Pennsylvania. SALT LAKE CITY: The number of people stopped from buying guns through the US background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales, according to new records obtained by the group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The House in March passed the legislation requiring the checks on all sales and transfers, as well as an expanded 10-day review for gun purchases. Most states require background checks only for sales at federally licensed dealers. But the legislation faces an uphill battle getting any Republican support in the Senate.
In 2017, just 12 of the 112,000 people denied a gun purchase, about 0.01 per cent, were federally prosecuted, largely due to limited resources for the time-intensive investigations, according to a US Government Accountability Office report. Gun rights groups have pushed back against the proposal, and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the group the Second Amendment Foundation, said the increase in denials might be partly because more states have been updating their records of restricted people. There are sometimes false positives as well, he said. “A day doesn’t go by that our office doesn’t get complaint calls from people who’ve been denied wrongly,” he said.
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