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Families of Charleston shooting victims sue FBI over background-check error

The families of victims killed in last year’s shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., are suing the FBI over an error during a background check that allowed the alleged shooter to buy his gun.

The lawsuit comes a year after the mass shooting that sent shock waves through the country. Dylann Roof, then 21, a white high school dropout, is charged with opening fire and killing nine black parishioners during a prayer meeting at the historic African American church.

In the days after the shooting, FBI Director James B. Comey said in a remarkable disclosure that Roof shouldn’t have been able to buy the gun he allegedly used.

Roof had been arrested for possession of narcotics in February 2015, a charge that alone did not disqualify him from buying a gun. But Comey said Roof’s subsequent admission of the drug crime would have triggered an automatic rejection of his gun purchase if the information had been properly recorded in ­criminal-record and background-check databases.

Authorities have said that a clerk’s mistake in how Roof’s arrest was listed prevented the FBI examiner for his background check from seeing it. And once the three-day mandatory waiting period for gun purchases expired, Roof was able to buy the .45-caliber Glock handgun.

“We are all sick this happened,” Comey said at the time. “We wish we could turn back time.”

In one of the multiple lawsuits filed Thursday, the victims’ families said, “If the gun sale was denied as required, it would have prevented the foreseeable harm to those people.”

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If we have background checks that aren't properly supported with data, of what use is an "expanded background check"?

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If we have background checks that aren't properly supported with data, of what use is an "expanded background check"?

None. But I'm sure it's all the fault of the NRA.

No no no, it's the fault of those evil gun manufacturers! Here's proof!!!

http://www.fixnics.org/factinfo.cfm

K.

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz
If we have background checks that aren't properly supported with data, of what use is an "expanded background check"?

None. But I'm sure it's all the fault of the NRA.

No no no, it's the fault of those evil gun manufacturers! Here's proof!!!

http://www.fixnics.org/factinfo.cfm

K.

If they can't do the checks as they are obviously that problem will be magically fixed by doing checks on more people. sarcasm font off

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz
If we have background checks that aren't properly supported with data, of what use is an "expanded background check"?

None. But I'm sure it's all the fault of the NRA.

No no no, it's the fault of those evil gun manufacturers! Here's proof!!!

http://www.fixnics.org/factinfo.cfm

K.

If they can't do the checks as they are obviously that problem will be magically fixed by doing checks on more people. sarcasm font off

LOL It's Bush's fault. LOL

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz
If we have background checks that aren't properly supported with data, of what use is an "expanded background check"?

None. But I'm sure it's all the fault of the NRA.

No no no, it's the fault of those evil gun manufacturers! Here's proof!!!

http://www.fixnics.org/factinfo.cfm

K.

If they can't do the checks as they are obviously that problem will be magically fixed by doing checks on more people. sarcasm font off

LOL It's Bush's fault. LOL

That too.

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It's Roof's fault and no one else's.

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It is the FBI's fault and the local Sheriff's offices fault he was able to buy a firearm.

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It is the FBI's fault and the local Sheriff's offices fault he was able to buy a firearm.

Actually that is the fault of the framers of the Constitution.

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It is the FBI's fault and the local Sheriff's offices fault he was able to buy a firearm.

Actually that is the fault of the framers of the Constitution.

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It is the FBI's fault and the local Sheriff's offices fault he was able to buy a firearm.

Actually that is the fault of the framers of the Constitution.

The 2nd Amendment is to blame for a mentally unstable person wreaking havoc on others?

Are we reading the same Bill of Rights?

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz
If we have background checks that aren't properly supported with data, of what use is an "expanded background check"?

None. But I'm sure it's all the fault of the NRA.

No no no, it's the fault of those evil gun manufacturers! Here's proof!!!

http://www.fixnics.org/factinfo.cfm

K.

If they can't do the checks as they are obviously that problem will be magically fixed by doing checks on more people. sarcasm font off

LOL It's Bush's fault. LOL

That too.

Well, by extension it is the NRA's fault because as we've been told here time after time, the NRA is the exclusive lobbying arm of the gun manufacturers.