Nearly 600 added to gun background check database

Over a two year period, hundreds of people who were ordered by the courts to receive mental health treatment have been added to a database that is used to restrict gun purchases, according to a report from the Vermont court system.Under a new state law enacted in 2015, the courts are required to report people who are put in the custody of the Department of Mental Health to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System — a federal database that gun stores are required to check befor