RT Article
T1 Compliance with universal background check gun laws
JF Journal of crime and justice
VO 44
IS 4
SP 414
OP 418
A1 Kleck, Gary 1951-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1783529415
AB 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.
K1 Compliance
K1 gun control
K1 Background checks
DO 10.1080/0735648X.2020.1815555