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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has had 18 investigators convicted of falsifying reports since 2006, and a lack of resources is preventing officials from processing a backlog of an additional 36 cases. 

Parts of the bill would also allow guns in parked cars on college campuses, on bike paths and in restaurants that serve alcohol.

As enterprise security leaders know, many of their employees are badged and enter and leave facilities through an electronic access control system

The bill would create a single, uniform badge at one price for contract workers on school sites, reducing the number and costs of background checks in the state. 

About 58% of federally licensed firearms dealers have not been inspected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the past five years.

 Senate rejected a compromise proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases.

According to a poll, American voters say 48 - 38 percent that the government could use the information from universal background checks to confiscate legally-owned guns.

The shows are adding extra steps to reduce illegal parking lot gun sales, as well as to better track sold firearms within the show. 

The contentious proposal to reinstate the assault weapons ban has been postponed, but measures to extend background checks to private gun sales and fund school security improvements have been voted through to the Senate. 

Senators struggle to find common ground on universal background checks for firearm purchases when faced with a divisive split about firearm registration and record keeping.