Multiple states missed a March 25 deadline to submit plans for bulking up the information states report to the FBI’s background check system for gun purchases.
This comes a year after President Donald Trump signed legislation requiring states and federal agencies to add more records to the database gun dealers use when running a background check during a gun purchase.
Almost a week after the deadline, 46 states and the District of Columbia had submitted the required plans, according to U.S. Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle. The Justice Department has not yet released the list of states that failed to meet the deadline.