JGalt
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BREAKING: Ted Cruz Exposes REAL REASON Air Force Failed to Update NICS
From the article:
"The man who attacked a Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas was not legally able to purchase a firearm, but still passed a background check because the Air Force did not inform the FBI of domestic violence convictions he obtained during a court martial.
Questions have abounded as to why he was able to fall through the cracks. His conviction in a military court of justice precluded him from being able to purchase or possess a firearm. He even had applied for a Texas concealed handgun license, but was denied by the State.
“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,” Governor Gregg Abbott told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “So how did this happen?”
At this point, it is still unclear what reason had precluded him from getting a license to carry; perhaps the State of Texas had access to information that the FBI’s background check system did not (somehow).
We do know that the attacker purchased his rifle in Colorado, and lied in BATFE form 4473 (the background check form), saying that he did not have a criminal history. The FBI’s NICS system should have caught the lie, but did not because the Air Force did not notify the FBI.
So why was the FBI not notified? Well, government incompetence for one, but also because of the fact that Democrats filibustered legislation in 2013 that would have required the Air Force to report that conviction to the FBI for record, Senator Ted Cruz has revealed."
And:
Additionally, he lied on the BATFE form 4473 when he purchased his guns in Colorado.
“That is a felony, to lie on those forms.”
However, the Obama administration was not so keen on prosecuting individuals who lied on these forms, or on those who otherwise tried to buy guns illegally.
“In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and tried to illegally purchase guns. They prosecuted only 44 of them.”
So due to negligence on the part of the Air Force and the Democrats filibustering, along with Obama's DOJ being unwilling to prosecute criminals, that led to the worst mass-shooting this country has ever seen. Now, you can't legislate the evil in a person's heart, but the laws of this country would have worked if they had been enforced.
So a man convicted of domestic abuse, court martialed out of the Air Force for domestic abuse convictions (that precludes him owning a gun under Fed. law), subject to mental health evaluation (also precludes his owning a gun under Fed. law), was still able to purchase a gun (he lied on the 4473 form, a FELONY), slipped through the background check because the Air Force screwed the pooch, used his illegally obtained firearm in the act of committing murder. A HERO uses his LEGALLY purchased gun to stop the criminal from killing more people.....good GOD! You just can't make this shit up! You anti-gunners are going to have to chew off a leg and spit in your own faces to argue any point in this one! A perfect storm.......yet......the NRA, legal gun owners, and even Republicans get blamed somehow for this latest killing spree. The ignorance knows no bounds.
I have a question for you Democrats, progressives, and liberals, and I am genuinely curious: What law could have been passed that would have prevented this?? Please be specific, not some general statement about "universal background checks"......as a background check FAILED, as it does in a lot of cases.
From the article:
"The man who attacked a Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas was not legally able to purchase a firearm, but still passed a background check because the Air Force did not inform the FBI of domestic violence convictions he obtained during a court martial.
Questions have abounded as to why he was able to fall through the cracks. His conviction in a military court of justice precluded him from being able to purchase or possess a firearm. He even had applied for a Texas concealed handgun license, but was denied by the State.
“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,” Governor Gregg Abbott told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “So how did this happen?”
At this point, it is still unclear what reason had precluded him from getting a license to carry; perhaps the State of Texas had access to information that the FBI’s background check system did not (somehow).
We do know that the attacker purchased his rifle in Colorado, and lied in BATFE form 4473 (the background check form), saying that he did not have a criminal history. The FBI’s NICS system should have caught the lie, but did not because the Air Force did not notify the FBI.
So why was the FBI not notified? Well, government incompetence for one, but also because of the fact that Democrats filibustered legislation in 2013 that would have required the Air Force to report that conviction to the FBI for record, Senator Ted Cruz has revealed."
And:
Additionally, he lied on the BATFE form 4473 when he purchased his guns in Colorado.
“That is a felony, to lie on those forms.”
However, the Obama administration was not so keen on prosecuting individuals who lied on these forms, or on those who otherwise tried to buy guns illegally.
“In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and tried to illegally purchase guns. They prosecuted only 44 of them.”
So due to negligence on the part of the Air Force and the Democrats filibustering, along with Obama's DOJ being unwilling to prosecute criminals, that led to the worst mass-shooting this country has ever seen. Now, you can't legislate the evil in a person's heart, but the laws of this country would have worked if they had been enforced.
So a man convicted of domestic abuse, court martialed out of the Air Force for domestic abuse convictions (that precludes him owning a gun under Fed. law), subject to mental health evaluation (also precludes his owning a gun under Fed. law), was still able to purchase a gun (he lied on the 4473 form, a FELONY), slipped through the background check because the Air Force screwed the pooch, used his illegally obtained firearm in the act of committing murder. A HERO uses his LEGALLY purchased gun to stop the criminal from killing more people.....good GOD! You just can't make this shit up! You anti-gunners are going to have to chew off a leg and spit in your own faces to argue any point in this one! A perfect storm.......yet......the NRA, legal gun owners, and even Republicans get blamed somehow for this latest killing spree. The ignorance knows no bounds.
I have a question for you Democrats, progressives, and liberals, and I am genuinely curious: What law could have been passed that would have prevented this?? Please be specific, not some general statement about "universal background checks"......as a background check FAILED, as it does in a lot of cases.
