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According to a report, there are some 39,000 guns in the hands of approximately 19,000 people who are not eligible to own or possess guns. These include felons on parole or probation, adjudicated mental patients, the categories of people who could not lawfully buy a gun or possess one now.

The main reason it is getting attention now is because it has not been acted on before. Nobody cared about acting to enforce it, so the situation developed.

This is only the number of guns in the hands of a number of people who have registered guns, as part of the mandatory registration process here where every firearm sale goes through an FFL for DOJ clearance. There is a 10 day wait between submission of the paperwork to DOJ and picking up the gun, even if you get clearance the same afternoon.

If you are deprived of possession of your gun, and it ends up in official custody, you must complete and application for clearance with DOJ, and pay a fee unless the gun was reported stolen. That clearance is good for 30 days.

You might wonder if I am making this up, but I'm not. Somebody did, though.