Fake ID’s Foil Brady Checks
Fake ID’s Foil Brady Checks
The General Accounting Office
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December 16, 2005
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm
http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040608093000-01743.pdf
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A team of Congressional special agents was able to bypass Brady Act background checks and successfully purchase firearms using fake IDs in all five states where they tried, according to a March 19, 2001 General Accounting Office report. The report itself is still not officially available electronically, but can be obtained at: http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040608093000-01743.pdf