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"Since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring, the FBI has more than doubled the number of people nationwide who are prohibited from buying guns because of mental health problems, the Justice Department said yesterday."
"Justice officials said the FBI's 'Mental Defective File' has ballooned from 175,000 names in June to nearly 400,000, primarily because of additions from California. ..." ...
"Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a group favoring tighter firearms controls, said the most optimistic estimates suggest that even the FBI's expanded list is missing 4 of 5 Americans who have been ruled mentally dangerous to themselves or others." ... |
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