The Justice Department also has required federal agencies to file reports aimed at improving their procedures for submitting records to the background-check database.

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Owned by data vendor CoreLogic, Teletrack has a database of background information on the over 39 million financially-distressed consumers who frequent payday loan shops and rent-to-own stores.

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The legislator, speaking on condition of not being identified, cited loopholes in the federal database for background checks on gun sales as well as issues involving mental health checks as possibilities for executive action.

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The FBI processed 2.78 million background checks through its national database (NICS), meaning last month was the busiest month ever for gun-sellers since NICS began in 1998.

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"A background check is only as good as the records in the database, so I think we all have a responsibility to report" mental-health records.

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Ninety-one percent of background checks are completed instantaneously, and they don't lead to a government database.

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That information wasn't forwarded to the federal database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation used by gun stores in conducting background checks, and should have stopped him from buying a gun.

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While he said he believes expanding background checks is a step in the right direction, Bouchard said the real solution would be creating a database that tracks weapons purchases.

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The law bans a broader array of military-style weapons, restricts ammunition magazines to seven rounds from 10, creates a more comprehensive database of people barred from owning guns, and makes New York the first state to require background checks to buy bullets.

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