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He also used his executive authority to try to improve the background check database and to revive government research into gun violence.
The 19 executive orders that Biden will propose are expected to include a requirement on all federal agencies that they pass on information on criminals, drug users and mentally ill people to the FBI background check database.
The exceptions to this rule of stagnation – the creation of a background check database following the Virginia Tech shooting and a litany of executive actions taken by President Obama – amount to cold comfort for reformers.
The NRA engineered the rejection of a legislative proposal from Senator Chuck Schumer to transfer the Veterans Affairs database of those deemed too "mentally incompetent" to handle their finances to the national background check database.
The federal background check database, which is supposed to have updated information from states, has only a patchwork, because of the wide variety of state laws on reporting, experts said.
The background check database contains more than 10 million active records, but states have been lax in some cases about uploading records to the system, particularly ones related to mental health.
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That has led to a crackdown on prescriptions: doctors can now check databases to make sure patients have not already been prescribed the drugs somewhere else, for instance.
In many places doctors must now check databases to make sure the patient has not already been prescribed painkillers by another clinic.
And while 43 states have their own laws for forwarding psychiatric records to federal background check databases, the comprehensiveness of those requirements varies widely.
Wrongful death lawsuits filed by survivors and family members of victims of the shooting alleged that at least one of the background check databases maintained by the federal government had information that should have prevented the firearm sale.
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