“.”Each year, tens of thousands of barred individuals slip through the cracks of the system and gain access to firearms...”
According to the “findings” in this bill, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:1:./temp/~c110BqZtGe:e2342:
“From November 30, 1998, through December 31, 2004, nearly 49,000,000 Brady background checks were processed through NICS. Approximately 916,000 individuals were prohibited from purchasing a firearm for failing a background check.”
That is ONLY 1.87% of those who were checked. Not a very good refusal rate in the eyes of these asses.
But those numbers are not in the context of the mental health issue, which I believe the speaker was infering.