Background Check System Summary

A previously convicted felon and terrorist, Ali Boumelhem, went to a Michigan gun show, where he was

Academy Sports + Outdoors was the sporting goods store where Kelley purchased the firearms used in the mass shooting in Texas. A spokesperson for the sporting goods store stated that the sales were approved by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The employee followed the procedures required by federal law, which allowed them to complete the transaction

Therefore, this caused Dylan Roof to buy a gun which he used to kill nine people at a historically black church in South Carolina. In addition, Roof had previously faced drug charges which should refuse his attempt to gun purchase. However, the information was unavailable at the background check system (2015, para. 1). Ressler (2015, para. 4) also states that the current three days’ standard background check time is not enough to process a cross check information between federal databases and states. Furthermore, the author Ferris (2014, para. 3) indicates in his article “Gun Purchase Background Checks: Casting a Wide Net with Many Holes” that NICS has not the complete records, and states have not incentive to report records of people who have prior criminal records and should not own guns. In addition, according to the research in 2012, there is a big part of mental health records from the last two decades can not be found in the NICS. Therefore, the system loophole results in people with criminal records escape the background checks and have access to guns is a significant cause of gun violence (2014, para. 14).

After I watch the video named “Shots Fired on Campus: When Lightning Strikes”. I learned that there are many way to avoid a gun shoot me. The first way is get out, the best way to survive an active shooter situation is NOT to be where he is and NOT to go where he can see you. If you can, get out, trust your instincts and leave belongings behind. The second way is call out. Don’t assume someone else is calling. Call 911. Be persistent; lines may be jammed. Calmly state where you are & what’s happening. The third way is hide out. Find a hidden location. Find protection. Avoid places that trap or restrict movement. The fourth way is keep out. Find a room that locks. Blockade the door. Be silent. The fifth way is help out. Help others escape. Keep

However, the background check screening has created a big gap between policy and practices and force homeless sex-offenders and Meth drug users out of communities. Consequently, lack of consideration of more support from federal and states collateral with frequently deny from communities and employment opportunity, may contribute in high levels of economic vulnerability, as well as, increase the magnitude of any social risky behaviors such as drug use and sex-crimes. While the intended purposes of registered lifetime sex-offender and permanent bans on public housing are mandatory by federal law on applicants who have been convicted sex crime or methamphetamine, (Crowell, 2017), Community attitudes need to be changed toward homeless registered

Before Columbine, responding officers were taught and advised not to actively engage with the shooter but set and wait for SWAT team arrival on scene before engaging. Such practice was evident in Columbine, where officers reported on scene but spent critical minutes waiting for the SWAT

Gun violence is a growing problem in society today. We need Shot Spotter systems implemented in high crime communities, such as Chicago, Illinois, to improve case closure rates, as well response times by police and first responders. In Chicago, from January 1, 2017 to March 23, 2017 there have already been 658 shooting victims (O'Connell, 2017). Today in a majority of communities, gun violence has to be called in or reported by civilians. Statistics show that only 20% of gun fire is reported (Shot Spotter, 2014). When they are reported, they often do not occur in a timely manner and the information provided is limited or incorrect. As a result, law enforcement agencies waste time following up on incorrect information provided.

One New York Times article called “Why Do We Ignore Initiatives That Reduce Gun Violence?” It says that “Proven strategies to protect people from being murdered by firearms do exist. The bad news: They’re tragically underutilized, for reasons that we suspect have to do with a dismissive national attitude toward the areas where most acts of violence are committed.” This shows how in places all over the US that aren’t as safe as others are more likely to have outbreaks not only because how safe that area is, but also because there is a lack of education on the people in the town saying how gun violence is wrong. This article shows how we need to promote gun safety everywhere in the US especially in the already unsafe

“The plan combines executive actions and calls for legislative action that would help keep guns out of the wrong hands, ban assault and high-capacity magazines, make our schools safer, and increase access to mental health services.” In this plan President Obama wants to secure the background checks on purchasing a firearm so than the background checks can be more accurate with selling firearms to the appropriate customer and not the consumers that are prohibited to own a firearm. There are 1.5 million firearms were purchased by the customers that are prohibited to own a gun due to felons or an individual with a history of domestic violence in the past 14 years. President Obama’s plan is to follow through with the background checks with all firearm sales either through private or licensed seller. President Obama wants to make sure that there is reliable data available on the purchasers that are prohibited through the background check system. Background checks are not always reliable due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) because if there is data on Mental Health HIPAA will not allow the access to the data because of the privacy violation that HIPAA is trying to protect the individual’s medical

Background checks for gun buyers were implemented a year and a half ago, more than 4,600 people who were supposed to be prevented from buying guns bought them anyway because their

As the United States experiences an increase in mass shootings, we also experience an increase in firearm purchases. According to the LA Times, there were 3 notable mass shootings between January 2015 and November 27, 2015. November 27, 2015 was Black Friday, and on this day in 2015 the FBI, the department responsible for running the National Instant Criminal Background Checks System reported that there were 185,345 NICS checks done that day (Penzenstadler). That number is a 5% increase from Black Friday 2014. The prior record for number of NICS checks run in one day was on December 21, 2012, only 7 days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, on that day there were 177,170 NICS checks received (Penzenstadler). One of the likely reasons

Gun violence is the sign of a far greater universal problem in America today. Violence and gun violence specifically, is surrounded within, and spread all through every part of our society. All the reasons remain intimately related to the actual solution, which can only be a general solution one by treating it as one issue. The region that I live in is considered a peaceful part of Harvest, which I am particularly grateful about. I do not have to worry about gunfights in the roads of my community, nor maybe being helpless confronted by students with a gun at school. That, nevertheless, does not mean that my community is impermeable to gun violence. Huntsville has seen its share of gun violence from the incident at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where three people were murdered and three others injured on February 12, 2010. Throughout the course of a routine gathering of the biology department attended by about 12 people, professor Amy Bishop stood up and began shooting those next to her with a 9-millimeter handgun (Hall 2010)

It has spread to the suburbs and small towns. Gun violence rates have increased in the last decade due to hatred and societal issues, and while shooters and victims both face many difficult obstacles, there are some solutions that the public and schools can enforce through awareness.

On Jan. 5, 2016, President Obama unveiled his new strategy to curb gun violence in America. His proposals focus on new background check requirements that will enhance the effectiveness of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and better the enforcement efforts of existing laws at the state level. The plan in 2015 states that it directs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to require any business that engages in the sale of guns to obtain a federal license to do so and conduct background checks. This requirement applies to gun stores, sellers of guns at gun shows, and sellers of guns over the Internet.

The firearms that were used in the attacks were two nine millimeter hand guns and two twelve gauge shotguns. They had sawed off the barrels and the butts of the guns to make them easier to carry and conceal while walking into the school. Eric and Dylan used the internet to make ninety nine improvised devices that were all different in size and design. With all of these things that they had done they had already committed many felonies prior to the massacre. Eric and Dylan obtained these firearms from a local gun show. They had gone to the show the day before and were turned away because of their age. Determined to buy the weapons they Eric and Dylan found an older boy to buy the shot guns for them his boy worked at the pizza shop with them. Also they had purchased the hand guns through a person that they had met at work also. Later this person was prosecuted for selling a firearm to an underage person. The semi automatic hand gun was bought for five hundred dollars.