The FBI on Friday received 203,086 requests for instant gun background checks, which would mark almost a 10 percent increase from 2016 and sets a new record for the most ever in one day, USA Today reported. USA Today pointed out that background checks do not indicate the number of guns actually sold because a buyer could purchase more than one gun in a check. Sessions directed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine if other government agencies are failing to report information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The database “is critically important to protecting the American public from firearms-related violence,” Sessions wrote in his memo. Sessions said the revelation was “alarming.” But the Pentagon has long known about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI.

Source: Fox News November 27, 2017 09:24 UTC