Air Force: Texas shooter’s unreported criminal record isn’t an isolated failure

By Christen Smith

Military officials said sub par criminal records reporting to the FBI isn’t a problem isolated to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, where the man who gunned down 26 people at a Texas church earlier this month served from 2010-2012. (Photo: Holloman AFB – 49th Wing/Facebook)
U.S. Air Force officials said Tuesday the branch’s failure to report the Texas shooter’s criminal record isn’t an isolated incident.
The revelation comes amid the military’s preliminary investigation into how officials time and again neglected reporting service member convictions to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. The oversight became headline news when 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley — a former Airman discharged in 2014 after assaulting his wife and infant stepson — shot up a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, earlier this month, killing 26 and wounding 20 others.
Kelley bought four different firearms in the years after his 2012 conviction, investigators said — including the Ruger AR-556 used in the church attack — despite his prohibited status under federal law. Military officials acknowledged their mistake made Kelley’s crimes virtually invisible to gun dealers accessing the National Instant Criminal Background Check System — the database used to verify a buyer’s identity and criminal record before completing a sale.
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Source: Guns.com