Odessa Killer Failed Background Check Due To Mental Health, Got Gun Anyway

By Tom Knighton

One thing that never seems to change is that before we even know anything about a mass shooting, we have gun control activists screaming all about what kind of laws we need.

It’s the same stuff we usually hear from them. Usually, it has nothing to do with the shooting and wouldn’t have had any kind of an impact even if such a law had been in place.

The same held true following the shooting in Odessa.

Now we know how the killer got his weapon.

The gunman who killed seven people and wounded 23 others in a rampage across West Texas on Saturday obtained the assault-style rifle used through a private sale after he was banned from having a firearm because he was diagnosed with a mental illness, media reported.

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The gunman who killed seven people and wounded 23 others in a rampage across West Texas on Saturday obtained the assault-style rifle used through a private sale after he was banned from having a firearm because he was diagnosed with a mental illness, media reported.

Private firearm sellers are not required to run background checks on potential buyers, but they are not allowed to sell a weapon to a person who has …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms