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JANUARY 24, 2002
Nation/World
Report: Georgia receives
C- for records on gun sales
: ATLANTA
‘ (AP) A national gun con
.trol group lists Georgia
“amongstates not adequately
;updating records used in
:background checks of gun
buyers.
. Georgia was one of eight
states that did not report
-sales to prohibited buyers,
-according to a survey re
<leased last week by Ameri
< cans for Gun Safety Founda
“tion. The group gave 22 states
.failing grades for maintain
singgrosslyinadequate crimi
-nal, domestic violence and
mental disability records.
+ Georgia earned a C- for
deficienciesin its automated
¢records, according to the re
-port.
. “Georgiaisoneofthemore
“aggressive states and has
“done a remarkable job, but
“there are still holes in the
-data that allow p=ople to slip
-through undetected,” study
director Jim Kessler said.
r “The dirty little secret is
Ithat the records for almost
"every state are in terrible
‘shape and our front line de
fense necessary to keep guns
out of the hands of criminals
3 is full of holes.”
Nationally, the crganiza
jtion said, almost 10,000
_people underwent back
;ground checks and bought
gunsover a 30-month period
. despite being legally forbid
Georgla
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den to have them. Survey
figures, from December 1998
toJune 2001, may be the “tip
of the iceberg,” the report
said.
Among those prohibited
from buying guns are felons,
illegal immigrants, people
under restraining orders for
domestic violence and those
involuntarily committed to
mental institutions.
State officials said
Georgia’s fail-safeisa “don’t
know, don’t sell” policy that
can indefinitely extend the
federallymandated three-day
waiting period when an ini
tial criminal history check
raises questions.
“If there are questions, we
continue to research the
record until there is a dispo
sition,” said GBI Assistant
Director Terry Gibbons.
Within the next year an
other potential loophole will
be plugged when a statewide
database of domestic violence
records is added, Gibbons
said. In 2000, the state ran
background checks on
213,110 prospective gun buy
ers. About 5 percent were
rejected, she said.
Kessler noted that, unlike
most states, Georgia keeps a
registry on domestic violence
restraining orders, but not
all domestic violence orders
make it to the state’s data
base.
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