ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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Whether he lied on his application or not he was still allowed to legally purchase guns. Obviously there is no database to show he spent a year in military prison and physically assaulted a woman and child or it was just ignored.

Except when you lie on the application you are breaking the law. His purchase was completed, but it wasn't a legal purchase since he provided untruthful information, as criminals tend to do.

And there's a preliminary report that the Air Force neglected to enter his convictions into the NICS database as they were supposed to.

The dealer has nothing to do with you getting permission from NICS to complete a transaction BTW. They take the information from the form you fill out, and provide it during the NICS check. The agent on the other end says yes or no, and that's where the transaction proceeds or stops.

And the NICS database is only as good as the info provided to it. If the Air Force fucked up, it's on them. Just like the PD that didn't enter Dylan Roof's drug arrest, which would have flagged him from purchasing when he did.

The only perfect system will be the no-more-gun-confiscate-existing system, and that's not likely to happen

Him lying on the application is not the point, obviously criminals will lie on their applications. So what's the solution? Well having stricter background checks would help, I'm sure if he was applying for citizenship they'd find out right away he had criminal charges against him. Obtaining guns needs to be as hard as obtaining a citizenship as far as background checks and those that fail to provide the information whether it be the PD, the NICS or the military should be held accountable.