Dishonorable discharge records quietly added to background check system after veteran with domestic violence conviction killed dozens
In the weeks after a US air force veteran murdered 26 people with a gun he should not have been able to buy, thousands of records that barred dishonorably discharged service members from buying guns were suddenly added to the country’s background check system.
Officials quietly added more than 4,000 dishonorable discharge records to the system over the three months since 5 November 2017, during the course of an investigation by the air force and the Department of Defense’s inspector general. The investigation centers on the air force’s failure to report a domestic violence conviction that should have barred Devin Kelley, an air force veteran, from buying the rifle he used to kill dozens of people and injure dozens more at a tiny church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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