Having a real system to check their designs against and to illustrate the challenges and benefits, is helpful.
And if you disapprove, then in 2010 you witnessed the power of America's system to check an overactive majority.
R. 2885 would make mandatory for all employers an electronic employment verification system to check (primarily) whether new hires are eligible to work in the United States.
If all goes well, the system could check up to 1, 200 passengers every hour at a single gate -- a rate quick enough to prevent a logjam at even the busiest terminals.
The US researchers, reported Science magazine, used genetic modification techniques to knock out a mouse gene which is responsible for keeping the immune system in check so that it does not launch attacks on itself.
The MDC's Tendai Biti, who currently serves as finance minister, told the BBC the document was the "midwife" to a brand new Zimbabwe as it sets out people's rights, devolves some power and sets up a system of check and balances for those in authority.
Froman talked about how the current background check system was broken, noting that an "instant check" in Colorado can actually take about 10 days.
In Colorado, only a tiny fraction (about 1%) of people who have gun-disqualifying mental health histories have been reported to the National Instant Check System, where they could be discovered in a routine background check of a prospective gun purchaser.
Federally licensed gun shops must use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. Private sellers and gun shows have no background check requirement.
Statistics from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) show about 1 percent of applicants who failed a background check over the past 14 years, or 10, 180 people, were turned down for reasons related to mental health.
Gun-control advocates have helped highlight these flaws, but some also worry that focus on the system's holes will be used as an excuse to block legislation requiring universal use of the background check system.
WSJ: Systemic Gaps Hinder Background Checks for Gun Purchases
We're pretty stoked to get a chance to check this system out for ourselves but until that time, check out the quick video of it in action below.
Some progress has been made on those instructions with regards to our background check system.
The agency performed more than 2.3 million checks in February using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
But information in the national background check system is incomplete, particularly involving mental health records, investigations have found.
In addition, he said, the background-check system tends to break down on weekends, when gun shows often swell traffic.
WSJ: Systemic Gaps Hinder Background Checks for Gun Purchases
We will make it easier to keep guns out of the hands of criminals by strengthening the background check system.
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Federal data on gun purchases is gathered by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is run by the FBI.
But only federally licensed dealers are required to use the background-check system.
These are the so-called loopholes in the current federal background check system.
New York state took steps Tuesday to bolster its background-check system as part of firearm-restrictions legislation that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law.
WSJ: Systemic Gaps Hinder Background Checks for Gun Purchases
Jared Loughner was not in the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) that records the names of people of deemed ineligible to purchase a weapon.
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Most federal gun prosecution takes place outside the background check system.
Incredibly, last November the Federal Bureau of Investigation says there were about two million background checks called into The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
In order to vote, each person had to insert a special card, but the system did not check that the same person was not voting many times.
An Associated Press analysis of new FBI data published early Tuesday shows the National Instant Criminal Background Check system processed more than 2.78 million checks in December.
In the 20 years since it was first established, the national background check system has already kept more than 2 million dangerous people from buying a gun.
Currently access to the FBI's background check system is limited to licensed firearms dealers, who have an incentive not to abuse it lest they lose their license.
Might a rational background check system include maybe being not-so-instant, even if it means that some people might have to wait a few days before purchasing a weapon?
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When someone who falls into a prohibited category for a gun purchase applies to buy a weapon under the background check system, there may be nothing to prosecute.
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