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In reply to the discussion: The Air Force says it failed to follow procedures, allowing Texas church shooter to obtain firearms [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)7. This sucks. The mechanism to prevent it existed. It just wasn't used.
NICS reporting is 'voluntary' from the states to the federal government. They report, they get access to extra law enforcement funding. It's a carrot and no stick arrangement.
The Military justice system is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Edit: This kind of failure to report fuckup has been a fuckup going back to Virginia Tech and earlier.
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The Air Force says it failed to follow procedures, allowing Texas church shooter to obtain firearms [View all]
Judi Lynn
Nov 2017
OP
Blood is on the hands of the USAF person(s) who did not care or looked the other way ideologically.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#11
Lots of military-industrial corporate welfare. Meantime the basics are carelessly forgotten.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#3
exactly right. Not a question that already have a law, but obviously current system does not work.
Justice
Nov 2017
#29
Everything is evil and malicious. Watch it just be a clerical error along the way.
Blue_Adept
Nov 2017
#30