Editorial: Scoring a bull’s-eye on gun-purchase background checks

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Editorial: Scoring a bull’s-eye on gun-purchase background checks

It’s basic common sense supported by more than 90% of Americans and wholly consistent with the Second Amendment: Anyone buying a firearm needs a background check. That’s what prevents felons and people with domestic violence protective orders and those suffering from serious mental illness from obtaining deadly weapons, and it’s what separates illegal guns, which not even NRA zealots say they want on the streets, from legal guns. Yet for a quart…