FBI Says Charleston Gunman Should Not Have Been Able To Buy Gun

Posted by | July 10, 2015 14:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly

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The FBI is revising an earlier assessment that a background check was properly done.

FBI Director James Comey told reporters Friday “this rips all of our hearts out” and “we are all sick this happened.”

Comey said the FBI made a clerical error due in part between a breakdown in paperwork between police departments and counties.

Roof, the 21-year-old accused of murdering nine African-American attendees of a bible study class at Charleston’s Emanuel AME church, used .45 caliber handgun to carry out the attack, stopping several times to reload.

Earlier stories said that the gun was a gift from Dylann Roof’s father, and that the father could be liable if he knew of his son’s earlier felony charge of possession of a narcotic.

South Carolina is one of 40 states that do not require background checks for private gun transactions, like the one that allegedly took place between Roof and his father. Gun control activists call this the “private sale” loophole.

It’s illegal to give guns to felons or people with felony indictments — but that’s only if you know about their criminal records. In South Carolina, you don’t have to ask, so private citizens can more or less freely exchange guns.

If prosecutors can show that the father knew about Roof’s indictment but gave him the gun anyway, Roof’s father could face up to 10 years in prison.

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10 responses to FBI Says Charleston Gunman Should Not Have Been Able To Buy Gun

  1. tracey marie July 10th, 2015 at 14:21

    throw them both in the deepest darkest dungeon and forget about them.

    • 4th Degree FreeMason by Decree July 10th, 2015 at 17:57

      You want them waterboarded too?

  2. Terry "Death to Equality" Xu July 10th, 2015 at 16:08

    So there isn’t really much of a gun control problem, only an enforcement once

    Nevertheless, the occasional murderous spree should not be used as an excuse to limit gun ownership

  3. RD Walker July 10th, 2015 at 16:39

    I am recommending that we outsource background checks to the ChiComs. They have all our personnel records and could probably check them better than the FBI.

  4. 4th Degree FreeMason by Decree July 10th, 2015 at 17:57

    Obama just causes more and more mayhem with his lackey style of leadership.

  5. Suzanne McFly July 10th, 2015 at 18:10

    Hmmm, what is that smell? Trolls need to check the bottom of their shoes before they come in here, cause they stink!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. Snick1946 July 10th, 2015 at 19:08

    Yeah we’re all sick it happened, too. Now what the hell you gonna do about it to be sure it does not happen again? Maybe do away with the default to allowing the gun sale to proceed with incomplete documentation just because a buyer waited three days?

  7. Red Eye Robot July 10th, 2015 at 21:51

    The gun control movement has become Hitler in the bunker in the spring of 45. Bizare proclamations,
    Insisting this fight can still be won with the entire movement in retreat. No semblance of rational thought.

    • greenfloyd July 11th, 2015 at 02:08

      Legal and effective gun conrol is impossible with Gangsta-culture controlling the illegal drugs and guns markets.

  8. Red Eye Robot July 11th, 2015 at 04:13

    To paraphrase Michael Moore, The Obama administration screw ups have killed more Americans than ISIS

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