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4. No. Roof had a drug arrest. An FBI glitch/error and S. Carolina law allowed it
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 06:46 PM
Nov 2017

S. Carolina law says get a response on the background check OR 3 days - whichever comes first. There was no response so the gun store sold him YES HIM the gun.

One look at that freak, I wouldn't let him cut my grass let alone sell him a gun.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/10/dylann-roof-gun-fbi-background-check-failed-charleston-shooting

According to reporters who met Comey at FBI headquarters on Friday, the FBI chief said Dylann Roof was only able to purchase the gun he is accused of using in the attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston because of flaws in the FBI’s background check system.

Questions were raised immediately after the shooting because Roof was arrested on a felony charge in February. That should have stopped him purchasing a gun, but this information was not properly handled by the FBI, either being improperly entered into the federal computer system or used incorrectly by an analyst, according to the Washington Post.

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