The privacy rights of innocent gun purchasers were deemed paramount in the national emergency.

Consider the proposal now before Congress to make gun purchasers wait seven days so police can check them out.

The provision requires local law enforcement officers to conduct background checks of prospective gun purchasers.

There seems to be little concern for privacy protection for American gun purchasers.

These portions were interim provisions until a national instant background check system for gun purchasers could be implemented.

Federal law now requires dealers to record names of gun purchasers but limits assembling those names in a central data base.

There was also growing support for legislation to impose a seven-day waiting period to enable checks to be made on prospective gun purchasers.

Previously, the state provided a subsidy to gun purchasers for this fee.

He added, "Such a delay would impose an unreasonable burden on legitimate gun purchasers and therefore is unacceptable."

A new national computerized system for conducting instant background checks of prospective gun purchasers went into effect yesterday.