Posted January 19, 2018 8:30 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Three major cities sued the Department of Defense last month for its failure to report the Texas church shooter’s criminal background to federal authorities, thus allowing him to buy the gun he used to murder 26 people and wound 20 others. (Photo: Nick Wagner/ Statesman.com via AP)
The Department of Defense told a federal court last week a lawsuit pending from three major cities over the gun background check system overreaches.
In a 25-page response filed Jan. 12, federal attorneys called the expedited discovery request — via a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act — from the legal team representing the cities of New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco “both meritless and premature,” insisting the court deny the motion ahead of the case’s April 6 hearing.
“Plaintiffs seek to wield this scalpel as a bludgeon, asking the Court to engage in far-reaching oversight of Defendants’ compliance with … a statute directing agencies to report criminal history data to the Attorney General, over a period of decades,” the motion says. “To that end, Plaintiffs have filed for a preliminary injunction and ask this Court to grant expedited discovery. Every aspect of Plaintiffs’ request is disfavored.”
City officials sued the department Dec. 22 for its repeated failure to report

Source: Guns.com

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