26 are dead to include the youngest at 18 months old...May they all rest in PEACE....
Of course there are a lot of folks stating GUN CONTROL and MORE STRINGENT GUN laws....Even I know, it won't make a difference....BUT...should mental health or those who recently served time as this guy did for DOMESTIC abuse have to wait before being able to purchase a gun?
UPDATE: Turns out there is a law in place for this...Thanks to Roger Collins for enlightening me to this. so now the question is... I wonder why this did not come up in his back ground check? Did the USAF screw up in not reporting his dis honorable discharge and the time served for domestic abuse?
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Federal law prohibits certain persons from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving rearms or ammunition including any person who:
• Has been convicted of a crime punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year;
• is a fugitive from justice;
• is an unlawful user of, or addicted to, any controlled substance;
• Has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental
institution;
• is an alien illegally or unlawfully in the united States;
• is an alien who has been admitted to the united States under a nonimmigrant
visa (with certain exceptions);
• Has been discharged from the armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; • Has renounced united States citizenship;
• is subject to a qualifying protective order;
• Has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
Devin Kelley: Texas shooter was denied gun licence before carrying out massacre
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/devin-kelly-texas-shooting-gun-licence-carry-firearm-latest-news-updates-a8040331.html
The Texas shooter was denied a gun licence before carrying out massacre
The shooter who killed at least 26 people in a small church in rural Texas had previously tried to get a gun license in the state, but was denied. “So how was it that he was able to get a gun? By all the facts that we seem to know, he was not supposed to have access to a gun,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott told CNN’s Chris Cuomo, citing the director of Texas’s Department of Public Safety. “So how did this happen?”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/exclusive-the-fbi-allowed-over-300-000-gun-purchases-last-year-before-completing-a-background-9d380d53aa1d/amp/
EXCLUSIVE: In 2016, the FBI allowed 300,000 gun sales before completing a background check
New data from the FBI reveals the problem is only gettingworse.
Air Force acknowledges it failed to report Texas church shooter conviction
Devin P. Kelley’s convictions for child and spousal assault while in the Air Force should have prevented him from owning the assault rifle that authorities said he used in Sunday’s massacre at a Texas church.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-church-shooting-suspect-assault-weapon-domestic-violence/story?id=50956032
Texas suspect got assault weapon despite apparent domestic violence conviction
The suspect in a deadly rampage at a Texas church was able to purchase an assault rifle despite a law that restricts firearms from people convicted of domestic violence.Under U.S. law, a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence is prohibited from possessing...
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