Ray From Cleveland
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ordered a far-ranging review of the FBI database used to check the backgrounds of prospective gun buyers, after the Air Force failed to report the criminal history of the gunman who slaughtered more than two dozen people at a Texas church.
The failure enabled him to buy weapons, purchases his domestic violence conviction should have barred.
Sessions directed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine if other government agencies are failing to report information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. He also wants a report detailing the number of times the agencies investigate and prosecute people for lying on their gun-purchase applications and a closer look at the format of the application itself.
Sessions said the revelation was "alarming." But the Pentagon has long known about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI.
Sessions ordered the FBI and ATF to work with the Defense Department on its review and to identify other obstacles agencies face in sharing information with the database.
The problem has also caught the attention Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who joined forces on legislation that aims to strengthen the database by ensuring federal agencies and states accurately report relevant criminal information to the FBI.
Sessions orders review of background check system for guns
Sessions wants a report of how many times agencies prosecute and investigate people trying to buy guns when they were barred from doing so? He wants to examine the format of the application itself? He wants to identify obstacles that preclude agencies from sharing information? Republicans "joined" Democrat lawmakers to strengthen the firearms database? This can't be!!!!
I was told by the left that the NRA is the problem; that the NRA buys gun legislation through campaign contributions to the Republican party. Now this??? Wait a minute...........I think somebody is trying to fool me. How could the NRA have so much control of the right when they are "joining forces" with the left to reduce gun sales to people that shouldn't have them? When was the last time we ever read a story about the "Democrats joining forces with Republicans" on anything? Hmmmm.
Imagine the idiocy of all this. Enforcing our laws that already exist instead of making new laws that won't be enforced. This has to be a really confusing concept for the Democrats.
The failure enabled him to buy weapons, purchases his domestic violence conviction should have barred.
Sessions directed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine if other government agencies are failing to report information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. He also wants a report detailing the number of times the agencies investigate and prosecute people for lying on their gun-purchase applications and a closer look at the format of the application itself.
Sessions said the revelation was "alarming." But the Pentagon has long known about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI.
Sessions ordered the FBI and ATF to work with the Defense Department on its review and to identify other obstacles agencies face in sharing information with the database.
The problem has also caught the attention Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who joined forces on legislation that aims to strengthen the database by ensuring federal agencies and states accurately report relevant criminal information to the FBI.
Sessions orders review of background check system for guns
Sessions wants a report of how many times agencies prosecute and investigate people trying to buy guns when they were barred from doing so? He wants to examine the format of the application itself? He wants to identify obstacles that preclude agencies from sharing information? Republicans "joined" Democrat lawmakers to strengthen the firearms database? This can't be!!!!
I was told by the left that the NRA is the problem; that the NRA buys gun legislation through campaign contributions to the Republican party. Now this??? Wait a minute...........I think somebody is trying to fool me. How could the NRA have so much control of the right when they are "joining forces" with the left to reduce gun sales to people that shouldn't have them? When was the last time we ever read a story about the "Democrats joining forces with Republicans" on anything? Hmmmm.
Imagine the idiocy of all this. Enforcing our laws that already exist instead of making new laws that won't be enforced. This has to be a really confusing concept for the Democrats.