By creating a national 7day waiting period for handgun purchases. the Brady bill would provide law enforcement officials with a much needed opportunity to review the background of potential purchasers and keep honest gun dealers from selling handguns to those who are legally barred from handgun ownership. Further. it would provide a cooling off period during which a person. Intent on violence. may calm down. The Brady bill simply provides an enforcement mechanism for the 1968 Gun Control Act which prohibits criminals. drug addicts. minors. illegal aliens. and those diagnosed mentally III from buying handguns. Many States currently have a waiting period so that background checks can be carried out on potential purchasers. Where waiting periods and background checks exist. we know they work to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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