AG Jeff Sessions orders review of FBI gun background check system

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ordered a far-ranging review of the FBI database used to check the backgrounds of prospective gun buyers, after the Air Force failed to report the criminal history of the gunman who slaughtered more than two dozen people at a Texas church.

Sessions directed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine if other government agencies are failing to report information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. He also wants a report detailing the number of times the agencies investigate and prosecute people for lying on their gun-purchase applications and a closer look at the format of the application itself.

The database "is critically important to protecting the American public from firearms-related violence," Sessions wrote in his memo. "It is, however, only as reliable and robust as the information that federal, state, local and tribal government entities make available to it."

The Air Force admitted earlier this month that its Office of Special Investigations apparently failed to report Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley's name to the National Criminal Information Center after he pleaded guilty to two counts of domestic violence in 2013, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin previously reported.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-background-check-system-review-attorney-general-jeff-sessions/

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IMO anything that will keep weapons out of a criminals hands is a move in the right direction. HOWEVER, this doesn't go nearly far enough. I'm afraid this will make everyone feel warm and fuzzy about accomplishing "something" and all the additional needed reforms won't happen.

[atreides1]

1. A little late!!!

Some fugitives removed from FBI list because of change can now buy guns

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/22/fugitives-taken-off-fbi-list-due-to-change-can-now-buy-guns/

[Thor_MN]

2. Is this related to removing all people with warrants except those with inter-state warrants

from the people that would be prevented during a background check?

They just severely LOOSENED regulations, they did not tighten them.

[groundloop]

3. Two separate events.... one loosened regulations, this other may plug a loophole

In this case they're reviewing why the military legal history of the shooter wasn't shared.

[Thor_MN]

4. Seems odd to be opening up a gaping wide hole while claiming to tighten a small one.

The military screwed up, that is not a task for the FBI to handle.

The FBI just greatly reduced the effectiveness of background checks, while claiming they were going to check into something that is not their problem to solve.

Net win for the NRA.

[Hestia]

5. I thought there was a law explicitly against a gun and gun buyer database of any kind

ATF has to go through non-searchable data bases

https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-ridiculous-non-searchable-databases-explained/

Thanks NRA

[J_William_Ryan]

6. The NICS background database

is only as accurate and current as the updates provided by the reporting entities, such as the Air Force.

In this regard the Air Force failed.

The problem is that in order to fix the problem is to enact legislation the GOP and NRA oppose, legislation that has already failed to pass in the Senate.

[aikoaiko]

7. Prosecuting people who lie on Form 4473 is an excellent start.

This is a real problem and it isn't addressed.

It's really low lying fruit.

[dembotoz]

8. he can grandstand and pose for holy pictures without doing anything to dismay the nra

bet that will make the keebler elf giggle