States begin reporting mentally ill to FBI

January 19, 2013 4:49 PM

Since 1998, the FBI has maintained a database of people legally prohibited from buying guns - from felons to the mentally ill. Many states have been slow to report the names of their mentally ill residents. But as John Bentley reports, there are signs that's changing.

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