Guns slip through Nevada background checks [View all]

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — At least three dozen people failed background checks in the past year but kept guns they purchased because the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives no longer has agents in northern Nevada to retrieve the weapons, a newspaper report has found.

The Nevada Department of Public Safety in charge of conducting the background checks says it followed normal procedures and sent letters to the Reno ATF office asking agents to take back firearms from 36 people.

But the Reno Gazette-Journal reported Sunday that most Reno ATF agents transferred out of the area after a dispute erupted between the ATF office and local federal prosecutors.

The clash followed a September 2011 letter from an assistant U.S. attorney to the ATF that their cases wouldn't be prosecuted until unnamed "issues" were resolved.

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