Report: Air Force failed to submit Texas shooter’s criminal history to FBI, NICS

By Christen Smith

Top Air Force officials admitted wrongdoing Monday after it was revealed the agency didn’t submit Devin Patrick Kelley’s 2012 assault conviction to the FBI. Kelley’s criminal record would have barred him from legally buying the firearms used in Sunday’s attack at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that left 26 dead and 20 wounded. (Photo: Fox News)
The Air Force acknowledged Monday it never submitted the Texas shooter’s criminal record to the FBI, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein have ordered the branch’s Office of Inspector General to review the circumstances surrounding why 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley’s 2012 conviction for domestic violence against his wife and stepson never made it into the federal background check system database, thus allowing him to buy the firearms used in Sunday’s attack.
“The service will also conduct a comprehensive review of Air Force databases to ensure records in other cases have been reported correctly,” Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Monday. “The Air Force has also requested that the Department of Defense Inspector General review records and procedures across the Department of Defense.”
Kelley shot himself in the head Sunday after he opened fire inside the First Baptist Church in

Source: Guns.com