Not only was this guy a wife beater, he was caught sneaking guns onto an Air Force base and making death threats against his superiors.
Strangely, the Air Force decided not to notify the FBI's background database about these facts. If they had, dumb shit would not have been able to buy guns.
Well, there are several things to this. First off, if you commit a crime on a base, that is considered federal property, and the base takes care of any legal matters, usually in the form of NJP (Non Judicial Punishment), or a courts martial. The only place that those crimes would have been written down is in his service record or with a courts martial board. And, because he got kicked out with a Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD), it is up to the final records place, not the command, to report that he had a BCD to the criminal database. There is a good chance that someone may have missed entering that, because of the amount of discharges every year.
I can see where the AF may have dropped the ball, but the thing I dont understand is that he had also caught a couple of civilian convictions for spouse abuse which should have automatically put him in the data base. I thought that you were entered into it each time you went to jail on intake. How come the cops missed entering his information?
What is more, is that he didn't divulge any of this information on his application, and apparently, the gun store didn't bother to do a thorough check.
Nope, there were failures on many levels in this shooting.