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Lawyers.com journalist Aaron Kase reported under the Brady Law federal background checks are run on purchasers of firearms. But the “gun show loophole” allows approximately 40 percent of gun buyers to bypass background checks. Only people buying from federally licensed dealers must have background checks, and it’s not required at gun shows. More than 4,000 gun shows are held around the country annually, and 25 to 50 percent of the sellers are not federally licensed firearms dealers. Does this “gun …

Americans love their guns, and we can sleep soundly knowing that federal law keeps the legal firearm trade from supplying weapons to criminals, thugs, and gangsters, right? Maybe not. Thanks to a loophole in the law, even a felon with a rap sheet a mile long can walk into a gun show and walk out with his or her choice of firearm, free from the burden of a background check. The 1993 Brady Law, named after Ronald Regan’s press secretary, …