Giffords Law Center dissects how Waffle House shooter got confiscated guns back

By Christen Smith

Metro Nashville Police Department experts investigate the scene of a shooting at a Waffle House near Nashville, Tenn., April 22, 2018. (Photo: Metro Nashville Police Department)
The man accused of gunning down six people at a Nashville area Waffle House over the weekend used a rifle confiscated by police last year.
Lindsay Nichols, federal policy director at Giffords Law Center — the gun control PAC founded by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — released a memo Tuesday criticizing the circumstances that stripped 29-year-old Travis Reinking of his Illinois Firearms Owner Identification Card and four of his guns in 2017.
“The strongest relinquishment laws provide a formal procedure for law enforcement officers to remove and retain custody of firearms when a firearm owner becomes ineligible to possess them,” Nichols wrote. “Some state laws allow a third party, including a family member, to hold onto the guns when a person loses his or her gun eligibility. The shooting at the Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee demonstrates the risks of such a procedure. It is often too easy for the person to retake possession of the guns through persuasion, coercion, or theft.”
The FBI revoked Reinking’s FOID card — required in his home state of Illinois for

Source: Guns.com