I’m okay with that.
Good reason to get rid of the background check.
Since good guys far outnumber the bad guys, we’re better off if everyone is armed anyway.
The deep state must be destroyed.
But Californians can’t sue for not defending Prop 8
A failure to communicate.
By analogy, can those injured by illegal aliens use this as precedent to sue sanctuary cities that haven’t cooperated with ICE, and instead returned criminals to the streets?
In one way I’m OK with this, but OTOH I can see that its also a potential extra burden on taxpayers.
Here’s what the FBI director [Comey] says happened.
On April 11, Roof tried to buy a handgun at a store in West Columbia, S.C. And under normal procedure, that paperwork was assigned to an examiner at the FBI’s unit in West Virginia. The unnamed FBI examiner turned up Roof’s arrest on March 1 on a felony drug charge — but the system did not show a conviction, and it wasn’t enough to deny the purchase.
So she kept checking. And, Comey said, the first mistake comes in here. Roof’s rap sheet mistakenly listed the Lexington County, S.C., sheriff’s office as the arresting authority. The examiner then reached out to the sheriff’s office and prosecutors in Lexington for more information.
The sheriff’s office told her the Roof case was not theirs and advised her to check with police in Columbia, S.C.
And now, Comey said, the second mistake was made. The examiner consulted a contact sheet for local contacts in Lexington County, and didn’t see anything for Columbia. So she called West Columbia, where Roof allegedly tried to buy the gun, instead. Local authorities in West Columbia said they had no record of the case, and the examiner turned to other matters while she waited to hear from prosecutors.
Under the normal process, if gun dealers do not hear back from the FBI with a flat denial in three business days, they are free to sell the weapon to the person who filled out the biographical paperwork. And that’s what the gun store did with Roof on April 16.
The FBI background check worker, described by Comey as an experienced examiner who has been “struggling” over the church shooting, never heard back from prosecutors in Lexington. But if she had called police in Columbia and seen their arrest record on Roof, she would have known he had admitted to possessing a controlled substance. And that, Comey said, would have triggered an FBI denial of his weapons purchase on the grounds that he was “an unlawful drug user or addict.”
Comey said FBI officials in South Carolina, who have developed a relationship with family members of the church shooting victims, would brief them on the situation and his call for an internal review.
“All of us grieve for their unspeakable loss,” Comey said. “I want to know if there are ways to improve our process, our procedures and our training.”
Comey said he gathered and assessed the facts Thursday night, notifying the deputy attorney general and the attorney general, Loretta Lynch.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement: “It’s disastrous that this bureaucratic mistake prevented existing laws from working and blocking an illegal gun sale. The facts undercut attempts to use the tragedy to enact unnecessary gun laws. The American people, and especially the victims’ families, deserve better.”
My point of contention is not with these people. I am just very concerned that this and the red flag BS opens the door for the a-hole left to go after 2A.
That is what you get when the government starts saying it has those protection for people. Not acting when having the means to act is a form of violence that should not be tolerated.
The government needs to be held liable if it claims it can replace oversight.
I did not know you could sue the sovereign...