Posted June 20, 2018 7:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

The parking lot behind the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, S.C. in June 2015. (Photo: Stephen B. Morton/AP)
A federal judge on Tuesday closed a series of consolidated cases against the Justice Department and FBI over a failed background check that helped arm a white supremacist who killed nine in a mass shooting.
The lawsuits, filed in 2016, sought to take the federal government to task for their role in a botched background check that failed to keep a firearm out of the hands of a man who opened fire on a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. In the 22-page ruling, the court held that, although there was a failure in the system, the Federal Tort Claims Act that regulates cases of personal injury due to the negligent action of government employees, and the law that established the background check program itself insulates it from liability.
“Despite clear evidence of system failures in the federal background check system, it is manifest that under the well-established standards of the FTCA and the specific immunity provisions contained in Brady Act provide the victims of this tragedy no remedy at law,” said U.S. District

Source: Guns.com

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