Database links records with criminals
Aided by a new database that matches criminal histories with gun owners, state and local law enforcement agents have begun rounding up California's most violent gun-toting felons. Jason Kandel in the Daily News.
The state Department of Justice and the LAPD have identified 110 fugitives, ex-convicts and other offenders who legally purchased guns then later were convicted of violent crimes. Some 890 others have been identified across the state.
"Having armed, convicted felons is a risk to public safety," said Wilfredo Cid, the chief of the Bureau of Firearms at the California Attorney General's Office. "Those people do not have a right to carry a weapon."