Yes, I know he could have stolen a weapon and to those come up with a better plan than the Brady Bill and then we can pass the better bill. I own guns, have hunted, have family members who still hunt and do not see the need to remove weapons from members who has the ability to own, operate and protect a weapon.

The 2A has zero to do with hunting, it has everything to do with the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Do you have a link? I highly doubt that billions of dollars have been spent on the computers used for gun purchasing background checks.

Will post it now.

or if it is an opinion piece. If it is a news story, there is information included that needs attribution, but it is missing.

It's in the link. I simply forgot to include it but updated it.

Plain incompetence, get the correct information into the current system and it will work fine. Curious if the final denial was issued to the dealer at all. If it was then the dealer must notify the ATF of the prohibited person that has been sold a firearm. Also sounds like he may have committed a felony by lying on his 4473 form on drug use.

The whole law was a compromise.

the Brady campaign supports a bill that would close those loopholes, the ones certain elements claim don't exist.

that set up the NICS system, interesting.

The Brady campaign support closing the loopholes that you and your gungeon pals claim don't exist, as the article makes clear. The thing about money grubbing gun corporations is they find ways around the law to ensure they sell as many guns as possible. Their friends in the pro-2a community work hard to ensure they are able to continue that by resisting any and all gun control including expanded background checks. I for one recall the great celebration by gungeoneers the night Obama's background check bill was defeated. Such deliberate fissures in the system enable felons to acquire guns and kill more people, which in turn generates more gun sales. It's a win/win all the way around for the merchants of death.

This isn't 1994. Things are far worse in terms of access to guns, and the people who ally themselves with blood-drenched corporate profits over human life help make sure it stays that way. To pretend there has not been ongoing efforts to close those loopholes since 94 is a transparent and cynical ploy. You forget I have discussed these issues with you in the past and you have denied the loopholes exist. Now you falsely claim they are there because the Brady campaign wants them, when the fact is they have been fighting to close those loopholes for some time.

Now, I have heard countless times how there are no loopholes in the background check system, how the law is already adequate and how there is no such thing as purchasing guns without a background check. Any honest person knows that to be a complete lie, but that doesn't stop the NRA and its henchmen from spreading it anyway.

If the STATE would have provided the CORRECT information into the FEDERAL system it appears the sale would have been stopped. No maybe the only thing that may have helped is the weapon should not have been allowed to be sold until a positive from NICS. But how long is a reasonable time to restrict a right to a law abiding person? The agreement at the time was 3 days.

The current system should have worked. Lets fix that. I have no issues with UBC and I wish NICS would be opened up to private purchases.

Earlier this year President Obama shifting funding and focus to updating the flagging NIC System. I applaud his action and would like to see more emphasis placed on keeping it up to date. I would also like NICS opened to private purchases.

Virtually all of the rampage killers: Loughner, Cho, Holmes, Alexis, Hasan, Rogers, Roof, etc. had prior behavioral/criminal interactions with authorities that would have disqualified them from purchasing their guns. These are not out-of-the-blue, spontaneous, nobody-could-have-seen-it coming incidences. There was plenty of warning. There was plenty of time to intervene.

The law enforcement community needs to stop gunning down children or choking unarmed cigarette peddlers and actually focus doing their job of enforcing the laws on the books.