After the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and
others at a supermarket in Tucson in early 2011, the Justice Department
drew up a detailed list of steps the government could take to expand the
background-check system in order to reduce the risk of guns falling
into the hands of mentally ill people and criminals.
Most of the proposals, though, were shelved at the department a year ago
as the election campaign heated up and as Congress conducted a
politically charged investigation into the Operation Fast and Furious
gun trafficking case, according to people familiar with the internal
deliberations. It is not clear which, if any, of the conclusions were
relayed to the White House.
Read more... at the New York Times.
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