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Michael Bloomberg: “If you had to go through a background check, would you pass? And 63 percent said, 'Absolutely not. I would not pass.'”

On the recordMay 4, 2010
If you had to go through a background check, would you pass? And 63 percent said, 'Absolutely not. I would not pass.'
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Michael Bloomberg

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Bloomberg highlights the issue of background checks at gun shows.

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