{"id":782,"date":"2015-10-29T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:58:43","slug":"just-how-many-people-get-guns-without-a-background-check-fast-tracked-research-is-set-to-provide-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/just-how-many-people-get-guns-without-a-background-check-fast-tracked-research-is-set-to-provide-an-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Many People Get Guns Without a Background Check? Fast-Tracked Research Is Set to Provide an Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/2015\/10\/private-sale-loophole-background-check-harvard-research\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/432945997_4c65ed6080_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Even with an estimated 300 million firearms in civilian hands, research on guns and gun violence in America is disproportionately underfunded. In the pool of data\u00a0that does exist, one number comes up again and again: the \u201c40 percent\u201d statistic, or the percentage of people who obtain a firearm without going through\u00a0a background check. Proponents of [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/\/www.thetrace.org\/2015\/10\/private-sale-loophole-background-check-harvard-research\/\">Just How Many People Get Guns Without a Background Check? Fast-Tracked Research Is Set to Provide an Answer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with an estimated 300 million firearms in civilian hands, research on guns and gun violence in America is disproportionately underfunded. In the pool of data\u00a0that does exist, one number comes up again and again: the \u201c40 percent\u201d statistic, or the percentage of people who obtain a firearm without going through\u00a0a background check. Proponents of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}