The fact the FBI check failed regarding this purchase should not be any surprise. Three days is ridiculous. Roof went into the licensed dealer on Saturday. Why? Why on Saturday?
There would only be one working day in the three day waiting period. The weekends have less personnel anywhere there is an office. The drug conviction wasn't going to be found in time. The FBI is not the problem and I'll be damned if the FBI will be scapegoated by gun legislators across this country.
July 10, 2015
By Elisha Fieldstadt
The errors (click here) that led to accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof purchasing a gun even though he faced drug charges fueled both sides of the debate over stricter gun laws Friday.
On Wednesday, two days before the FBI said Roof should not have been allowed to buy the gun he allegedly used to gun down nine church parishioners, those victims' families rallied on Capitol Hill for a bill that would expand background checks on would-be gun buyers.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said Friday that the bill, H.R. 1217, could have prevented the missteps, including a background check oversight, which allowed Roof to acquire the weapon....
The gun associations demands less and less regulations regardless of it being sound public policy.
Gun background checks should require seven days AT LEAST. The hand guns and exotic weapons that are not reasonable hunting guns, should require a 30 period for all background checks to surface. Military style weapons should require an indefinite period until a standardized background check is completed.
There would only be one working day in the three day waiting period. The weekends have less personnel anywhere there is an office. The drug conviction wasn't going to be found in time. The FBI is not the problem and I'll be damned if the FBI will be scapegoated by gun legislators across this country.
July 10, 2015
By Elisha Fieldstadt
The errors (click here) that led to accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof purchasing a gun even though he faced drug charges fueled both sides of the debate over stricter gun laws Friday.
On Wednesday, two days before the FBI said Roof should not have been allowed to buy the gun he allegedly used to gun down nine church parishioners, those victims' families rallied on Capitol Hill for a bill that would expand background checks on would-be gun buyers.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said Friday that the bill, H.R. 1217, could have prevented the missteps, including a background check oversight, which allowed Roof to acquire the weapon....
The gun associations demands less and less regulations regardless of it being sound public policy.
Gun background checks should require seven days AT LEAST. The hand guns and exotic weapons that are not reasonable hunting guns, should require a 30 period for all background checks to surface. Military style weapons should require an indefinite period until a standardized background check is completed.
