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Tom Rice: “I think the reason that they only search two is because, when we did the background-check law in the mid-1990s, the…”

On the recordOctober 21, 2021
I think the reason that they only search two is because, when we did the background-check law in the mid-1990s, the N-DEx system did not exist.
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Tom Rice
Republican · South Carolina

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Rice explains the historical reason for the incomplete background checks.

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