A Small Omission

Reading this article linked by The Smallest Minority.

The FBI fails to complete about 200,000 background checks each year out of millions.

While they mention that about 1.4% of the checks that take longer than 3-days to complete result in a denial; they don't mention how many of the nine-million or so background checks that are completed result in a denial.

I'm guessing that there aren't many at all, or they'd be talking about how dire the straits are with all these criminals trying to buy guns.

Considering how the rate of gun related violence has been dropping while the supply of guns has been climbing.

Graphic from: https://graphicalrepresentation.wordpress.com/

I'm going to speculate that anyone who's background is sufficiently muddy that the FBI cannot find a reason to deny them in 88 days either has nothing disqualifying in it, they're damn good at hiding it or the people responsible for keeping these records straight at grossly incompetent.

Considering the number of cases involving people who should have been denied shooting others, I think the last explanation survives Occam's Razor.