Twenty-five people a week who were legally banned from owning a gun went into a store in Utah and tried to buy one during a three-month period last year, tracked as part of a state-run pilot project.
On average, four of those people each week were considered the “highest risk” offenders, largely because they had committed multiple violent felonies, had domestic violence convictions or outstanding protective orders, according to the study by the State Bureau of Investigation.
I suppose the good news is that these people were stopped — although, let’s be honest, there are easy ways around those checks.