31.   Currently, background checks are performed on those buying guns from federally licensed dealers, but private traders are not screened.

32.   Current federal law only requires checks for those who buy from federally licensed dealers.

33.   Federal investigators, judging by the number of background checks requested by licensed dealers, said gun sales have increased across the country.

34.   Federally licensed dealers at gun shows must now do background checks, and they have three business days to do so.

35.   From April until September, he bought guns from licensed dealers.

36.   He had obtained them legally from licensed dealers, Stern said.

37.   In years past, many police officers were themselves licensed dealers, buying firearms for other officers.

38.   It would, additionally, give licensed dealers more freedom to sell guns at shows outside the states in which they are licensed.

39.   Lawyers for the companies say that their clients cannot control what happens to the weapons after they are sold legally to licensed dealers.

40.   Licensed dealers offer their wares alongside private citizens who are allowed to sell guns without taxes or paperwork.