Texas church killer Devin Kelley was legally permitted to purchase firearms thanks to a glaring mistake by either the Air Force or the FBI during President Barack Obama’s tenure, according to federal officials.
Either the FBI failed to log Kelley’s criminal history into its NCIC database or the Air Force and Pentagon failed to forward the file to the FBI.
Either way, Kelley was apparently allowed to purchase guns “legally” because his criminal history was not warehoused by the FBI NCIC database used by federal firearms dealers for background checks.
Kelley was convicted after assaulting his wife and stepson in 2012. He served 12 months in Air Force incarceration and confinement. In 2014 he was issued a bad-conduct discharge.
This story is developing.