The numbers follow years of surging firearm sales. Yet they also underscore a longstanding tension in the system: Federally licensed dealers are permitted to proceed with weapons sales in cases when background checks are not completed.
But analysts suggested that the unusual spike in seizure orders is due in part to the aftershocks of the coronavirus pandemic. Not only did gun sales skyrocket during the height of the pandemic – a record 39.6 million background checks were initiated in 2020 – placing increased pressure on the background check system.
David Chipman, a former ATF official who helped oversee the firearm retrieval program during his time at the agency, also pointed to COVID's transformation of the workplace as almost certainly contributing to the troubling increase in retrieval orders. The day after the sale, an associate of the buyer, also a gang member, used the gun to rob an East Cleveland restaurant, according to the FBI report.
The three-business-day deadline for background check examiners does not account for the crushing volume of transactions that increases almost every year, he said. But the National Rifle Association, long the most influential force in the powerful gun-rights lobby, said adequate safeguards already exist and that the retrieval orders"illustrate that existing law has always had safeguards if law enforcement authorities are willing to use them."
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