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On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
Ninety percent of federal background checks take only a few minutes, but in thousands of cases three days is not enough time to complete a check.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline highlights the dangers of the Charleston loophole in background checks.

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