New Yorker’s Michael Luo: Background Checks Would Not Have Prevented Fla. Shooting

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LUO: "I mean, there can be I think agreement about — and they’ve been talking about this ever since I started covering school shootings back in Virginia Tech about the requirements for states to report all their records to the NICS system. So that’s talking about mental health records, talking about some criminal records. There are some issues that we’ve been seeing with whether the Veterans Department was sending all their records that they needed to send with regard to the parkland shooting in Texas. I think there’s agreement about basic fixes around reporting which we have been — again, we’ve been talking about for years. The issue really is in this case he legally purchased the gun. This wasn’t an issue of some sort of missed record in this case and, again, the background checks would not have fixed this situation and many mass shootings."