Background checks should be a must when purchasing a weapon

Dyedo Tikio
3 min readMar 9, 2022

A background verification when buying arms to limit criminal acts and terrorist conspiracies has become a political and social issue of great concern as in 2018 alone, nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths occurred in the US. Many have challenged the validity of assumptions about the positive effects of identity checks when purchasing weapons. Although controversial, the mindset of objections does not seem to obscure the essential need to scrutinize personal information of those wishing to use firearms: allowing gun buyers to be checked does not infringe on…

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