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| Air Force Didn't Share Texas Shooter's Domestic Violence Conviction With FBI |
| 2017-11-07 |
| [Free Beacon] The Air Force announced on Monday that it did not share records on the Texas church shooter's 2012 domestic-violence-related court-martial with the FBI's firearms background-check system, allowing him to pass numerous background checks over several years to obtain at least four firearms. "Initial information indicates that Kelley's domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations," Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokesperson, told the Washington Free Beacon. The shooter, 26-year-old Devin P. Kelley, was court-martialed in 2012 for what Stefanek told the Washington Free Beacon was "assault on his spouse and assault on their child." He was sentenced to 12 months in military prison for the assault and received a demotion to the Air Force's lowest rank. His assault resulted in serious injuries to the child in question. "He assaulted his stepson severely enough that he fractured his skull, and he also assaulted his wife," Don Christensen, a retired colonel who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force, told The New York Times. "He pled to intentionally doing it." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 I've heard both that he received a BCD and a DD. Only the DD specifically prohibits owing firearms. If he got a BCD, there was no firearm prohibition. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-11-07 21:15 |
| #9 It gets worse. Kelley escaped from the looney bin in 2012. The dishonorable discharge should have been a disqualifier for a weapon purchase. He also assaulted his wife and child. The child suffered a skull fracture. He was denied a carry permit. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-07 16:40 |
| #8 Despite all the clamor about the in-laws, I do not think family issues were the only (or even the main) reason he shot up the church. I think it was straight up anti-Christian hatred. If he wanted just the in-laws, he could of shot them in a more secluded spot with fewer panicked people running into the line of fire. He wouldn't have needed to kill children. He wouldn't have concentrated on the pastor's family. You need to concentrate on his vicious screeds on facebook. These will tell you what he was really thinking. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2017-11-07 14:18 |
| #7 "Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein directed a complete review of the Kelley case by the Air Force Office of the Inspector General," Stefanek said. "The Service will also conduct a comprehensive review of Air Force databases to ensure records in other cases have been reported correctly. The Air Force has also requested that the Department of Defense Inspector General review records and procedures across the Department of Defense." OK. I guess I should have followed the link and read the entire article before I went off. Doesn't let CBS off the hook though. News organizations like that should be hounding the Pentagon for answers. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-07 13:15 |
| #6 Churches are easy targets for ISIS and the deranged left. Church's need a carry concealed members at the door as people enter and exit and doors that can be secured once the service starts. We also need people to start telling the cops when their friend, who they know has mental issues, starts to post violent things on Facebook. Might save their friend from a suicide or worse. Unfortunately I think most of the deranged left don't have many friends. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-11-07 12:57 |
| #5 Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? Those are the questions that journalists are supposed to ask. Even in high school journalism classes, even junior high school, this mantra is drilled into the students. The answer to one of those basic questions is missing in this article. Can you guess which one it is? Last night I watched CBS news and I'm guessing their coverage wasn't too much different than ABC, NBC or CNN. They went to great lengths to talk to people in Sutherland Springs and tell all of their stories as well as those of the victims. I feel sorry for those people. I really do. But what I really want to know is who dropped the ball, why was this nut case allowed to buy guns and what is being done to fix it. Not a peep about that from CBS. With all of the investigative resources available to that organization, not one peep, no indication whatsoever that they are even thinking about that one little basic question. They were careful, however, to include calls for more gun control by various left wing congresscritters. Instead of more gun control, why can't the laws that are already on the books be enforced? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-07 12:51 |
| #4 The Air Force dropped the ball. However, legally-owned firearms often become stolen illegal firearms and find their way into a black market. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-07 07:57 |
| #3 The millennial E1 clerk was getting a Starbucks from the PX at the time. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-07 07:51 |
| #2 The basis of the dishonorable discharge by way of courts martial shouldn't have been any reason to avoid reporting the finding which as a felony conviction should have been entered. Doesn't anyone know how to play this game? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-07 07:31 |
| #1 Let's not be too harsh. That Pr0n isn't going to watch itself. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2017-11-07 06:36 |