1.0 link 57950 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/mental-health-gun-bill-ha_b_57950.html In June, in the wake of the Virginia Tech mass shooting, newspapers across the country hailed a "compromise" bill that would supposedly increase the number of records submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the database utilized by the Brady background check system when guns are purchased from a gun dealer. In a deal brokered by former NRA-board member Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) and blessed by the National Rifle Association, a bill introduced earlier this year by...

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