Jon Tester: “Exactly. So you zip down to the local gun store, wherever it might be in your town, do the background check. Then you do…”

“Exactly. So you zip down to the local gun store, wherever it might be in your town, do the background check. Then you do not have to worry about if, in fact, that person has a criminal past or is severely, violently mentally ill. It will be there. There is also language in this bill that if a State is not putting information in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, money is pulled back. In the State of Montana, I believe it is about 10 percent. In the State of Montana, that is serious dollars. It is well over $100,000 to be pulled back. Would the Senator from West Virginia like to talk about the thinking that went into that and how this could impact the background checks?”