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Old 01-09-2011, 05:04 PM   #351
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Originally Posted by GirlySports View Post
Here's what I don't get. How the hell did this guy, who had been kicked out of a community college because of mental issues, and told he couldn't re-enroll without a psych evaluation, and was too crazy to be allowed in the armed forces, walk into a store and buy a gun? And not just a gun, 30 rounds! HOW? Regardless of your views on gun control laws, aren't those the kind of people that everyone can agree shouldn't have guns?
He passed an FBI background check because he didn't have a felony conviction. There IS a police record on him, but his charge "possession of drug paraphernalia" was dismissed since he entered into some kind of counselling program.

Had he been prosecuted and convicted, he would have a Class 6 Felony (the lowest grade of felony) on his record and likely would not have been allowed to purchase the gun.

The attitude in Arizona is, as I understand it, "being scary and odd isn't enough to revoke your 2nd amendment rights".
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