4th Circuit looking at FBI culpability in Dylan Roof incident
If any of you have PACER there was a case today in Richmond looking at the Liability of the FBI, for not correcting a bad sale.
Feds Defend Gun Background Checks in Fourth Circuit
The case is Felicia Sanders v. US 18-1931
If any of you have PACER there was a case today in Richmond looking at the Liability of the FBI, for not correcting a bad sale.
Feds Defend Gun Background Checks in Fourth Circuit
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-defend-gun-background-checks-in-fourth-circuit/The federal investigator tasked with completing his background check made contacts with the Lexington Police Department, which told her an arrest record existed but was in the possession of the Columbia Police Department.
The investigator testified that she scanned her local police contact sheet and only found the West Columbia Police Department, and when she contacted them no document surfaced, so Roof was allowed to make the purchase.
A federal judge in South Carolina ruled for the FBI last year, finding that the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act grants the government immunity in most situations when it fails to prevent weapons from winding up in the wrong hands.
But during Tuesday’s oral arguments at the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Roger Gregory, a Bill Clinton appointee, called that lack of accountability “absurd.”
Grilling Deputy Assistant Attorney General Thomas Ward, the judge said the investigator “had the info, was told where it was,” but didn’t contact the correct agency.
The case is Felicia Sanders v. US 18-1931
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