How The Las Vegas Killer Used Facebook To Exploit Gun Law Loopholes
Jerad Miller, one of the killers responsible for gunning down two police officers and a pedestrian in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, tried to purchase weapons on Facebook one month before the deadly rampage. In a post dated May 8, Miller asks, Need rifle. Can anyone help? before clarifying that hes looking for anything that can reach out and touch evil tyrant bastards.
Jerad Miller, who had a criminal record dating back to 2000, was a convicted felon and prohibited from purchasing firearms from a licensed dealer. It was a restriction he railed against online.
They have tried to tell my fiance, who has no criminal record, that she may not own a firearm if I live in the house. Now, i face a dire problem, he wrote in a post for InfoWars. Yet there is no victim in the crime i committed, so how can that be a felony charge? A charge that takes my 1st, 2nd, and 4th right away? How can this be? Do I really live in a free country?
Federal law prohibits felons, domestic abusers, the mentally ill, and other broad categories of individuals from purchasing weapons from licensed gun dealers, though many states ban additional categories of people those who commit misdemeanors or have a demonstrated history of alcohol- or substance-abuse problems from carrying guns. Last year, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval (R) vetoed legislation that would have required background checks on customers in all gun sales, arguing that the measure would do little to prevent criminals from unlawfully obtaining firearms. A federal bill expanding background checks to most gun purchases was also defeated in the U.S. Senate.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/10/3446984/las-vegas-killer-sought-to-purchase-guns-online-to-touch-tyrant-bastards
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