Each year, 1.2 million online ads offering firearms for sale are listed that would not legally require a background check to be completed. | Everytown Research & Policy

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In a recent survey of 2,500 likely voters, 85 percent of respondents favored Congress passing an Extreme Risk law.

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82%

82 percent of traced guns with a short time-to-crime that crossed state lines came from states without background check laws.

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76%

76 percent of traced guns that crossed state lines came from states without background check laws.

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Young Black men are 21 times more likely to be shot and killed by police than their white counterparts.

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