Roof had a felony beef that had yet to be adjudicated and thus selling him a firearm is a federal offense. Not only will they lose their license, they will possibly do prison time.

however I am wondering if it would show in background check if he had not been convicted yet and it was still beong adjuticated ?

One doesn't have to surrender currently owned firearms if under felony indictment, but you can't buy new ones.

They need to throw the book at that dealer then. Either he skipped the check or ignored it.

You have to be convicted of a felony or under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; Section (d) 1

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922

So it is a grey area, if he was arrested but not indicted or if he was charged with a crime punishable by less then a year, he would not show up on the NICS check. I am fairly certain the gun store followed the rules, very, very few gun stores are going to risk their FFL, potential prison time and possible civil suit for a couple of hundred dollars they make on the sale of a gun.

Here is the ATF 4473 form that buyers fill out: https://www.atf.gov/file/61446/download

As an aside, as usual, many of the initial "facts" from the media are wrong. Personally it'll be at a least a week before I start believing the details that are being reported.

The store will have retained their records. If he passed the background test, then that will have been indicated. If he didn't and they sold him the gun anyway, then they're in big trouble.

My guess is enough to do this...

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