The Denver Post reports
This is disgraceful and something should be done.
More than 2 million qualifying mental-illness records are missing from the NICS index, according to the National Center for State Courts and SEARCH, the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics.
Judges who find a defendant mentally defective under the law are required to add that person's name to the index.
"Part of the reason they don't report is lack of funding, and part is they just don't make this system a priority," said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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