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Orrin Hatch: Criminals do not walk into a gun shop to buy weapons and submit themselves to a background check.

On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
Criminals do not walk into a gun shop to buy weapons and submit themselves to a background check.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

Editor's note · Context

Hatch highlights the ineffectiveness of background checks for preventing gun purchases by criminals.

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