FBI: Record number of illegal immigrants tried to buy guns this year by Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/fbi-record-number-of-illegal-immigrants-tried-to-buy-guns
The FBI this year has turned away a record number of illegal immigrants trying to buy guns, according to a new report of background checks.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System said that it rejected 7,836,600 planned purchases from “illegal/unlawful alien” in 2018. And that was at the end of November. Christmas purchases of guns are typically high and were not included.
That number has been increasing in recent years. In 2017, it was 7.3 million. The year before, it was 7 million rejections. In 2015, it hit 6.6 million.
Illegal immigrants rank at the top of those on the FBI’s “prohibited category.”
The full list of prohibited categories and NICS catches:
Illegal/unauthorized alien: 7,836,600.
Adjudicated mental health: 5,637,317.
Convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year or a misdemeanor punishable by more than two years: 3,833,213.
State prohibitor: 1,267,285.
Misdemeanor crime of domestic violence conviction: 174,388.
Under indictment: 128,214.
Protection/restraining order for domestic violence: 74,014.
Renounced U.S. citizenship: 46,346.
Unlawful user/addicted to controlled substance: 46,320.
Dishonorable discharge: 16,485.
Fugitive from justice: 1,919.
Comments are closed.
