First-of-its-Kind Survey of 50 States Concludes Lack of Leadership and Funding Keeps Critical Records about Dangerous People Out of National Do-Not-Sell Database Survivors

Only 17 states have submitted more than 1,000 mental health records to database, and more than 1.5 million records are estimated to be missing New state laws enacted to improve submission of records to National Instant Background Check System (NICS) in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre appear to be working WASHINGTON, Jan.

It’s easy for American society to label young killers as simply crazy.

Failure Leaves More than a Million Mental Health Records Out and Allows Dangerous People to Buy Firearms Firearms Policy Experts and Virginia Tech Massacre Family Members Available for Interview NEW YORK, Jan.

NEW YORK, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three years ago on April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two semiautomatic handguns and several hundred rounds of ammunition, shot and killed 32 people and wounded many more on the campus of Virginia Tech before killing himself.