Confederate flag removal a substitute for gun law reform (SC)
Schuyler Kropf
Jun 15 2016 10:00 pm
Faced with the worst mass shooting in South Carolina’s recent history, Gov. Nikki Haley and the state Legislature did nothing this past session to make it harder to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them ...
South Carolina’s most senior member of Congress says the state’s political powers ignored the need to seriously address the state’s gun-law weakness. Instead, lawmakers chose to channel their outrage and grief over the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church by taking down the rebel banner from the Statehouse grounds, according to U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn ...
... legislation to address the so-called “Charleston loophole” that allowed admitted Emanuel AME shooter Dylann Roof to purchase the weapon that killed nine people never got a Statehouse hearing on its merits.
The Charleston loophole is tied to Roof’s ability to buy the .45-caliber Glock 41 used in the Emanuel shooting when he should not have been allowed to purchase it. Before he took the pistol home from a gun shop, he was required to submit to an FBI background check. It failed to uncover his past admission of possessing an illegal drug because of a paperwork error. That should have disqualified him ...
http://www.postandcourier.com/20160615/160619580/confederate-flag-removal-may-have-been-a-substitute-for-real-gun-law-reform
