Posted November 6, 2017 1:16 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The Texas church shooter appears to have purchased four guns over the last four years. This is despite numerous reports that he had been kicked out of the Air Force after being court-martialed for domestic violence. That’s according to the latest press conference from officials on the ground in Sutherland Springs.

Officials state he purchased four guns, one per year. Two came from Texas and two from Colorado where he lived prior to moving back to Texas. In at least one of those cases, we know that he purchased it from a licensed dealer. That means he had to undergo a background check for that purchase, which he apparently passed.

However, what he didn’t manage to do was get a Texas concealed handgun license.

In April 2016, [the shooter] purchased the Ruger AR-556 rifle he allegedly used in the shooting from a store in San Antonio, Texas, a law enforcement official said. There was no disqualifying information in the background check conducted as required for the purchase, a law enforcement official told CNN.

At one point, the shooter tried to get a license to carry a gun in Texas but was denied by the state, Abbott said, citing the director …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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