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December 21, 2012

Report: Mental-Health Records Missing from Gun Database 
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Amid the growing national conversation on gun control and mental
illness, a new analysis has found millions of mental-health records
remain missing from the national database used by gun dealers to run
background checks on buyers. The group Mayors Against Illegal Guns found
19 states have provided fewer than 100 mental-health records each to the
database.

 

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