Air Force admits widespread failure to report convictions to background check database | SOFREP

Its a system that takes human action to work..Errors are going to happen.
Its a system that is only as good as the motivation, knowledge and professionalism of the airmen assigned the task. Id bet most times that works out fine, but sometimes there is going to be a dud assigned the position and the task will be ignored, or not understood.
Someone had to tell the new "guy" that just PCS'ed in to do "that task" .. sometimes there is no "old" person, no overlap,,,,and tasks that should be done go uncompleted just because the person tasked, does not even know its part of there job.
Clearly this is (was) a task that needs more check and balances so it can never be skipped, missed, left undone. But honestly, things like this do not reveal them selfs....until they do,,,, hopefully at an IG or CDRs annual inspection, but sometimes only after their failure causes an event.
Now if the lawyers find this issues was noted on the last annual inspection and no fix was made..Or if there is a congressional inquiry last year when someone spouse was found to have had a weapon after they should have been denied..and no fix was made...well then yes, some folks need to be hung for this.
But the E4 clerk that had no way of knowing the possible ramifications for not transferring data from one screen to another with in some time line...or the SGT supervise that was never given the verbal notice to check that item 101 is done after each conviction.. .....I find t hard to blame them.
Again if it was previously known and not corrected.... yes lets find that person(s) and deal with them...But lets not scape goat everyone in a flawed system that "could have prevented" this tragedy ..partly because..criminals commonly don't acquire weapons though legal means ...so its false logic to say had the Air force not made this mistake the same event could not have happened.. Thats just BS... shooting crimes happen all the time with guns acquired though non legal means .. as this one could have as well,,
Its a human problem, not a gun problem

Heads should roll. We know what the real outcome of this will be. I wonder how many the other branches have they didn't report?

Someone is getting fired.
There is no excuse for this.
None.