{"id":336236,"date":"2017-11-23T08:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T07:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-orders-review-of-gun-background-check-system\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T07:43:40","slug":"presstv-us-orders-review-of-gun-background-check-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-orders-review-of-gun-background-check-system\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US orders review of gun background check system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after the US Air Force admitted its failure to report the November 5 Texas shooter&#8217;s criminal record that had allowed him to legally buy guns and commit one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Devin Patrick Kelley, a former US airman, was court-martialed for domestic violence while still on active duty in 2012 and was consequently barred from owning or buying firearms.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Air Force\u2019s failure to enter his history into the national database allowed the disgraced serviceman to freely purchase a rifle last year and then use it in the attack in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions said on Wednesday the shooting showed that not all the necessary information was being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general said he was ordering the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/23\/543167\/US-attorney-general-orders-review-of-gun-background-check-system\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after the US Air Force admitted its failure to report the November 5 Texas shooter&#8217;s criminal record that had allowed him to legally buy guns and commit one of the deadliest mass shootings in American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}