Was Dylan Roof Not Allowed To Own A Gun

As brian doherty noted on friday the fbi has concluded that dylann roof the man charged with murdering nine people at the emanuel ame church in charleston south carolina last month should not.

Was dylan roof not allowed to own a gun.

A jailhouse clerical blunder was one of several oversights that permitted dylann roof to buy the weapon he used to gun down nine people in a south carolina church last month authorities said. During a routine bible study at the church a white man about 21 years old later identified as roof opened fire with a handgun killing nine people. Roof was unemployed and living in largely african american eastover at the time of the attack. Kris van cleave reports.

Federally licensed gun dealers are required to run background checks on gun purchasers and roof s pending. Fbi director james b. Agents a failure by local prosecutors to. When is a terrorist not a terrorist.

In the days after dylann roof opened fire in a black church in charleston south carolina politicians and pundits wrestled with the question of whether he was a terrorist. The controversy regarding the alleged failure of the fbi to properly run a background check which allowed dylan roof to purchase a firearm is apparently not over just yet. Comey says roof should not have been allowed to. The fbi says a mistake in the background check process allowed dylann roof the man charged with the charleston church massacre to buy the gun used to murder nine people.

Because of his criminal record roof would not have been able to buy a gun from a store. Or a madman who couldn t have been stopped. Or most sympathetically he s the victim of a tragic mental illness. Despite having previously admitted to drug possession the man dylann roof 21 was allowed to buy the 45 caliber handgun because of mistakes by f b i.

A judge has denied all of the motions to dismiss the case and has now allowed it to proceed. Then he s a lone wolf.