Strict Gun Laws Failed To Stop San Berndardino Terrorists

By Bob Owens

The two handguns and two rifles used by ISIS-inspired Islamic terrorists to kill 14 and wound 21 at a Christmas party earlier this week in San Berndardino, CA, were purchased legally four years ago under some of the strictest gun control laws in the United States.

The four weapons used in the San Bernardino mass shooting were purchased more than three years ago and one or more of them were purchased at Turner’s Outdoorsman, a Southern California-based retail chain, according to a law-enforcement official.

The official declined to give details on which of the weapons were purchased at Turner’s or which branch made the sale.

Bill Ortiz, vice president of compliance for Turner’s, said the store cooperates fully when law-enforcement requests information pertaining to purchases. Mr. Ortiz would neither confirm nor deny whether the chain had been contacted by authorities regarding the weapons used in the attack, as per the company’s corporate policy.

The weapons were illegal under California law because they were modified and violated the state’s ban on assault weapons, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Thursday.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the suspects in the Wednesday shooting that left 14 people dead and …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms