Air Force Clerical SNAFU Allowed Sutherland Springs Killer To Buy Guns

By Tom Knighton

Sunday’s tragedy in Sutherland Springs is the epitome of senseless violence. So many dead, so many wounded. It’s the kind of thing where all on its own it makes you wonder if anything could be done to pretend this kind of thing.

Anti-gun activists think they have the answer. They have a myriad of new regulations they want to ram down people’s throats, just like they always do when they use the bodies of the deceased as their soapbox. However, this time there was a law that actually could have prevented this tragedy. The thing is, it’s already on the books.

The Air Force admitted that the problem was on their end. They failed to upload the killer’s conviction into the NICS.

This fact was initially revealed in a draft statement that was inadvertently released to reporters. The Air Force admitted that after an investigation, it was discovered that the conviction was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center as it should have been.

This enabled Kelley to pass a background check and purchase an AR-15, which he used to kill 26 people at the church. Kelley had spent a year in jail for domestic violence and had been court-martialed.

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Source:: Bearing Arms