by War

The F.B.I. operates the background check system, called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and loopholes have been discovered in it before. One allowed thousands of prohibited buyers to legally purchase firearms over the past decade — and some of those weapons were ultimately used in crimes, according to court records and government documents.

You would think that at this point in the argument over gun laws we could realize that any mistake in the process of accessing a firearm could mean a live lost. I don't know the gun regulation state to state, but I know that things like this definitely shouldn't happen especially that frequently.