Air Force Failed to Report Dozens of Service Members to Gun Database

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Source: New York Times

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
November 28, 2017

Dozens of Air Force service members charged with or convicted of serious crimes were never reported to the federal gun background-check database as required, Air Force officials said on Tuesday.

The revelation came after the Air Force disclosed that it had failed to report the domestic violence conviction of Devin P. Kelley, the gunman who opened fire at a church in Texas this month. Under federal law, Mr. Kelley’s court-martial conviction for domestic assault should have prevented him from purchasing at a gun store the rifle he used in the attack, as well as other guns he acquired over the past four years.

After the Air Force admitted on Nov. 6 that officials at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico had failed to report the results of Mr. Kelley’s court-martial to the federal background database, it began an investigation into how many other serious incidents had not been reported.

Although officials have only examined a portion of the cases, several dozen have already surfaced that were not reported but should have been.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/us/air-force-devin-kelley-gunman-texas.html

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The Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs. Officials said they were assessing whether to take punitive action against personnel who failed to report a killer’s conviction.Matthew Staver for The New York Times

[Fred Sanders]

1. Incompetency at the highest level, originating in a flaw at the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

[tblue37]

3. Sounds more like a circle the wagons coverup than like mere incompetence. nt

[Throck]

2. Air Farce

[mercuryblues]

4. I don't think these failures are mistakes

They are being done on purpose. There are too many of them to be oversights. Roof was not supposed to be able to get a firearm, but his info was entered incorrectly. There are far too many people that believe that a person's right to a gun must not be infringed for any reason and some of them apparently have the job of entering the info in the database that prevents it. Even some states are not entering the info in a timely manner.