Lapse in background check database allowed Texan church gunman to buy weapons: Pentagon

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Posted on AllSides November 7, 2017

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Devin Kelley, the gunman in Sunday’s massacre at a church in rural southeastern Texas, was found guilty by court-martial of assaulting his first wife and a stepson while assigned to a U.S. Air Force logistics readiness unit in 2012, the Pentagon disclosed on Monday.

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