As stores crowd with holiday shoppers, gun buyers will be challenging the nation's background check system to keep up.
There are already nine guns for every 10 people in the U.S. and someone is killed with a firearm every 16 minutes. Stakes are already high with about 40 background checks requested every minute. On Black Friday, it speeds up to nearly two gun checks per second.
Kimberly Del Greco helps run the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. She calls it a perfect storm of time limits and insufficient data and resources.
About 500 FBI agents have just three days to verify information that keeps guns from criminals, the mentally ill and people with restraining orders. Otherwise, the sale goes through. About 512 gun sales a day effectively beat the system in 2013.
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