Posted November 8, 2017 9:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake has crafted a bill that would see the information of those convicted by military courts in domestic violence cases forwarded to the NICS system. (Photo: Flake’s office)
Following revelations that the man who killed 26 in a Texas church on Sunday should have been barred from purchasing a firearm, some in Congress want to act on background checks.
On Tuesday, U.S. Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced a bipartisan proposal that forces the military to report misdemeanors of domestic violence to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database used in vetting gun purchases. The killer in the First Baptist Church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas had been convicted of domestic violence charges while in the Air Force in 2012 but the branch did not forward his disqualifying information to NICS.
“It appears this loophole allowed a man who was clearly unfit to purchase a firearm to do so at the cost of 26 innocent lives,” Flake said in a statement. “This bill will ensure that a situation like this will not happen again and that anyone, anywhere convicted of domestic violence is kept from legally purchasing a gun.”
The measure proposed by Flake would require the

Source: Guns.com

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