Guns slip through Nevada background checks

[petronius]

4. The RGJ article says the people lied or gave inaccurate information on

their forms:

In the past year in Nevada, at least 36 people either lied or gave inaccurate information when they filled out a form to purchase a gun, according to the Nevada Department of Public Safety, the agency in charge of conducting background checks. When the department discovered that bogus information, they followed normal procedures and sent letters to the Reno ATF office asking the agents to take back the firearms.

Since no one at ATF acted on those requests, the guns are likely still on the street and none of the people who bought the guns have faced federal charges related to lying or providing the inaccurate information for their background check or being a felon in possession of a firearm.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20121118/NEWS/311180048/ATF-U-S-Attorney-rift-leaves-guns-wrong-hands-Northern-Nevada?nclick_check=1

So perhaps the dealer proceeded normally and properly, and the false info was only discovered later?

Nevada dealers go through a state point of contact for background checks (http://nvrepository.state.nv.us/pos.shtml), so it would be interesting to know - for Nevada residents, anyway - how the falsehoods were detected and what information is being retained/reevaluated by the POC.

But no matter what, feuds between federal entities that result in un-investigated crimes require that butt kicking you mention, no matter who started it...