Family Blames Gun-Seller for Murderous Rampage

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92. Personally, I would force NICS compliance by the states.

Currently there are a lot of individuals who can answer yes to the question: "have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective(which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution?" on the form 4473, but enter a no. Form 4473 is required of all FFLs to have the customer fill out. Which they then query the NICS system to validate the information in the form. If the data in NICS is incomplete because the sate has failed to submit the records to the database then an individual could continue with the purchase.

There are two parties at fault in this scenario. The individual who lied on the form(a felony) and the state for failing to submit the records. This is exactly how Cho circumvented the system.

I do not feel that a psychiatric screening would be at all feasible. What would one screen for? Again, some conditions could take months to diagnose.