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Attorney general orders review of background checks for gun purchases

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a review of the background check system for gun purchases after the massacre in November at a Texas church. The gunman’s prior conviction for domestic abuse should have blocked him from buying guns, but the Air Force failed to enter his conviction in the federal database. CBS News' Paula Reid reports.
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