New DOJ rules set to increase gun purchase background checks [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — At Indy Arms Company, Retail Manager Mark Welter conducts dozens of background checks a month for purchasers of new guns.

”Name, address, height, weight, gender, race and then there’s a whole series of questions the purchaser answers regarding legal issues, background, convictions, all that sort of stuff that would look for anything that would be a disqualifier,” said Welter. ”If it comes back proceed then we are able to continue with the sale. Delay means the system or the federal government needs some more time to finish running that process that can cause a delay of up to seven additional days and then a denial would be there is something prohibiting that person from having that firearm and the transaction stops there.”

Welter said its rare but occasionally the background check comes back denied.

”Sometimes when we inform a customer that he’s been denied, the reactions vary, from …