List of Mentally Ill Banned From Buying Guns Doubles
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PARK CITY, Utah — A federal list of mentally ill people barred from buying guns has doubled in size since the Virginia Tech shootings, and Attorney General Mukasey urged more states yesterday to add information to the database.
In his first policy speech since taking over as attorney general early this month, Judge Mukasey said states have now reported 393,957 mentally ill people to the federal database used to screen the backgrounds of potential gunbuyers. As of last July, three months after the Virginia Tech shootings, states had submitted only 174,863 names to the database.
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