By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The racist man accused of shooting nine people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston was barred from buying a firearm but still was able to make a purchase because the FBI’s background check raised no red flags, NBC News reports.
FBI officials acknowledged that Dylann Roof should have been prevented from buying a gun because he acknowledged he had possessed drugs during a previous arrest.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley blamed the error on the FBI background checks.
“When the FBI called us, we were told that it was an FBI issue, that it was not a state issue,” she said.
Haley raised many questions.
“When someone has a charge filed against them, it should go into a database, and it should be shown immediately to anyone’s that looking at it,” she said. “I would be more interested in what went wrong. Why are they dealing with paperwork and not dealing with technology?”
