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Estimates based on an analysis of federal background checks by The New York Times.

Bill Clinton in 1993, created the modern system of federal background checks for the purchase of firearms.

Since January 2009, when Obama took office, 46 of the first seven months of the year have seen increases over the prior year's gun sales, as roughly measured by the number of federal background checks performed.

Fear of gun-buying restrictions has been the main driver of spikes in gun sales, far surpassing the effects of mass shootings and terrorist attacks alone, according to an analysis of federal background check data by The New York Times.

Measures that would impose renewed restrictions on military style assault-weapons and an upper limit on the size of magazines appear to be in danger of failing in the US Senate, though an extension of federal background checks on all gun sales has a greater chance of success.

Obama proposed an executive order interpreting the scope of federal background checks more broadly, applying background checks to those who purchase firearms through a trust or corporation and requesting the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security conduct research into gun safety.

Cornyn (R-Tex). said he plans to introduce legislation to streamline the process of reporting military convictions to federal background databases, in large part because Kelley's domestic-violence conviction while in the Air Force wasn't conveyed to federal authorities — something that might have prevented him from buying the rifle used in the slayings.

The appointment is subject to federal background checks.

What the plaintiffs maintain, in part, and what the district court agreed with in February, is that there is no longer a need for such laws after the creation of the federal background check system as part of the the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, passed in 1993.

The Supreme Court upheld the bulk of the federal background check system in 1997, although it did strike a number of limited provisions that would have required state and local officials to perform some background check duties at the behest of federal officials.

Alcohol-related misdemeanors don't stand in the way of passing a federal background check, and only a small handful of states like neighboring South Carolina impose their own restrictions on people with histories of drunken behavior.