Increasing the emphasis on enforcement and on detecting fraud before it creates a system-wide crisis can be accomplished without any new legislation, though legislative changes in the late 1990s and early 2000s appear to have removed some barriers to fraud.
The centerpiece of a Democrat-led gun-control effort a plan to expand the system of background checks aimed at detecting buyers ineligible to own guns failed in a 54-46 vote, six votes shy of the 60 needed to advance.
The system can automatically identify and notify officials if it recognized that an action is not permitted, detecting what is described as anomalous behaviors.