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With the support of the National Rifle Association, Cornyn is introducing legislation to reward states that send more information about residents with serious mental problems to the federal background check system for firearms purchasers, the lawmaker said Wednesday. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="byline sts"> <div class=" media"> <div class="media-body">  <h6 class="svn"><a rel="author" class="tf3f1 h7">By ALAN FRAM</a>  </h6> <p class="stn">Associated Press</p> </div> </div> <div class="meta story-dateline sts"> <div class="time story-published">Published: <time itemprop="published" datetime="2015-08-05T10:31:04-05:00"> 05 August 2015 10:31 AM</time></div> <div class="time story-published">Updated: <time itemprop="modified" datetime="2015-08-05T13:06:09-05:00">05 August 2015 01:06 PM</time></div> </div> </div> <aside class="DMNReferWrapper pull-right panel-flat-medium content-aside"> <div class="label-related">Related</div>     <ul class="story-related"> <li class="first"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150807180046/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150727-federal-gun-check-system-widely-inconsistent.ece"> Federal gun check system ‘widely inconsistent’ </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150807180046/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150629-david-fellerath-i-own-guns-i-hate-the-nra.ece"> David Fellerath: I own guns; I hate the NRA </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150807180046/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20150626-point-person-our-qa-with-firmin-debrabander-on-the-intersection-of-firearms-and-freedom.ece"> Point Person: Our Q&A; with Firmin DeBrabander on the intersection of firearms and freedom </a> </li> </ul> </aside>  <div class="story-body "> <div class="body viziwyg-editable viziwyg-field-2384992-BODY viziwyg-section-7452"> <div class="entry-content"> <p>WASHINGTON — Backed by the National Rifle Association, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican leader introduced legislation Wednesday that would reward states for sending more information about residents with serious mental problems to the federal background check system for firearms purchasers. </p><p>The bill by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, would also bolster programs for treating mentally ill people and handling confrontations with them. It comes after last month’s killings in a Louisiana movie theater by a gunman with mental problems put a fresh spotlight on holes in the background check system and programs for people with psychological difficulties. </p><p>Cornyn’s legislation is far more limited than a Senate measure expanding background check requirements that Republicans and the NRA helped defeat two years ago. It’s also narrower than a bill a top Senate Democrat announced this week. </p><p>Still, it represents a rare effort by a leading Republican to propose modest steps that could curb some firearms purchases. Cornyn has an A-plus rating for his gun-rights voting record from the NRA, which long has fought gun restrictions yet has backed some bills limiting the ability of mentally troubled people to buy firearms. </p><p>Cornyn said that while past bills have been designed to “drive a political wedge” on the issue, his was aimed at helping people with mental health issues to “hopefully pre-empt them from committing an act of violence.” </p><p>Jennifer Baker, spokeswoman for NRA legislative affairs, said the bill took “meaningful steps toward fixing the system and making our communities safer.” </p><p>Gun control advocates criticized the measure for doing little to curb firearms purchases. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said it “does nothing to prevent dangerous people from purchasing guns” online or at gun shows. </p><p>By law, federally licensed gun dealers must conduct background checks on firearms purchasers. </p><p>Among those barred from buying guns are people legally determined to be “mentally defective” and those who have been committed to mental institutions. But states are not required to send those records to the background check system, which is run by the FBI, and its database is spotty. </p><p>Cornyn’s bill would increase grants under the government’s main law enforcement program by up to 5 percent for states that send the federal system at least 90 percent of their records on people with serious mental problems. States providing less data could see their grants from a broad range of justice programs penalized by the same amounts, at the attorney general’s discretion. </p><p>The bill would give state and local governments more flexibility to use federal funds to screen for mental problems in prisoners and improve training for law enforcement officers and others on handling emergencies involving the mentally ill. </p><p>Less than two weeks ago, John Russell Houser fired a handgun into a crowd of movie watchers in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing two and wounding nine. Houser’s family said they knew he had mental problems and had sought court protection, but he was not involuntarily committed to a hospital. </p><p>When he purchased the weapon at a gun shop in Alabama, the information about his problems had not been sent to the background check system and the sale was allowed. Police said Houser killed himself after they confronted him. </p><p>Dylann Roof, charged in June’s massacre of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, bought his gun after an FBI background check examiner did not discover that Roof had been arrested for possessing illegal drugs, authorities said. That should have blocked his purchase. </p><p>On Monday, a Democratic leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced legislation that would provide extra federal money to states that send a broad range of data on the mentally ill to the federal system, including information about the mentally ill, violent criminals and domestic abusers. </p><p>In 2013, the Senate shelved bipartisan legislation that would have expanded required background checks to firearms bought at gun shows and all Internet sales. 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