07-10-2015, 02:53 PM
FBI mistake let accused Charleston killer buy a gun
FBI director admits the background check on Dylann Roof overlooked an arrest record. Roof used the gun he bought to allegedly slaughter nine people in a black church.
FBI Director James Comey says the gunman charged in the Charleston church massacre should not have been allowed to purchase the gun used in the attack.
Comey on Friday attributed the problem to incomplete and inaccurate paperwork related to an arrest of Dylann Roof weeks before the shooting at a church that left nine people dead.
He says an FBI examiner who looked into Roof’s background when he tried to purchase a gun never saw an arrest report in which police say he admitted to possessing drugs. The arresting agency was listed erroneously on the rap sheet that the examiner reviewed.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/0...a-gun.html
FBI director admits the background check on Dylann Roof overlooked an arrest record. Roof used the gun he bought to allegedly slaughter nine people in a black church.
FBI Director James Comey says the gunman charged in the Charleston church massacre should not have been allowed to purchase the gun used in the attack.
Comey on Friday attributed the problem to incomplete and inaccurate paperwork related to an arrest of Dylann Roof weeks before the shooting at a church that left nine people dead.
He says an FBI examiner who looked into Roof’s background when he tried to purchase a gun never saw an arrest report in which police say he admitted to possessing drugs. The arresting agency was listed erroneously on the rap sheet that the examiner reviewed.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/0...a-gun.html