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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]TomSlick
(11,185 posts)20. This was certainly a world-class screw up but.....
The trial counsel (military term for prosecutor) at a BCD Special Court-Martial was almost certainly a squeaky new lawyer. Every military lawyer knows about the Lautenberg Amendment but it probably just didn't occur to him/her that the conviction needed to be reported in the federal system.
I like to think that it would have occurred to me long years ago as a young JAG to check on how to report the conviction in the federal system but I cannot be sure.
Remember Hanlon's Razor.
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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