Fed Claim Store That Sold Rifle To Sutherland Spring Shooter Did It Illegally

By Tom Knighton

Sutherland Springs is a mass shooting we don’t hear too much about. After all, it didn’t really advance the narrative all that much. You had a man who never should have been able to pass a background check buy two firearms after doing just that. You also had him met with armed resistance after he exited the church, thus proving the “good guy with a gun” is not a myth. Those two reasons alone were plenty of grounds for the media to memory hole this shooting as quickly as possible.

However, the investigation is apparently still ongoing.

It seems federal authorities are arguing that the store which sold the eventual gunman his rifle did so illegally.

Academy Sports + Outdoors violated the Federal Gun Control Act when the Katy retailer sold an assault-style rifle and high capacity magazine to the man who used them to kill more than two dozen people inside a Sutherland Springs church in 2017, federal prosecutors said in a court filing this week.

The Department of Justice, in a court filing Tuesday responding to lawsuits from victim’s families, implicated Academy as a responsible party in the mass shooting. Prosecutors defending the U.S. said Academy should not have …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms