Compliance with universal background check gun laws
Some states have enacted laws extending background checks on persons seeking to acquire a firearm to cover gun transfers among private persons, not just those involving licensed gun dealers. The same kind of law has been proposed at the federal level. The effectiveness of ‘universal background check...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of crime and justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 414-418 |
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| Summary: | Some states have enacted laws extending background checks on persons seeking to acquire a firearm to cover gun transfers among private persons, not just those involving licensed gun dealers. The same kind of law has been proposed at the federal level. The effectiveness of ‘universal background checks’ (UBCs) is dependent on how many people seeking to acquire a gun from a private party comply with the required background check. Data on background checks on attempted private transfers were combined with estimates of total private gun acquisitions (with or without checks), and the results indicated that only 10.6% of private transfers in Colorado in 2019 and 3.5% of those in Oregon in 2017 were subjected to a state-mandated background check. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-9119 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0735648X.2020.1815555 |