Academy can't be sued for selling gun used in Texas' deadliest mass shooting, Supreme Court says

[rabid wombat]

https://abc13.com/politics/academy-...ling-gun-used-in-tx-deadly-shooting/10832164/

“but the store that sold it to him can't be sued because a federal database failed to flag his past assault conviction, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.”

The Fed’s strike again…..

“Although federal law disqualified Kelley from purchasing a firearm at the time of the sale - based in part on his conviction in a 2012 court-martial for assaulting his wife and stepson and his dishonorable discharge from the United States Air Force - that disqualifying information was not in the system, which authorized Academy to 'Proceed' with the sale," the court found.

 

[12Bravo20]

Good deal. And Academy should have never been sued to start with. They followed all of the laws and it is not their fault that the Air Force did not send the information into the NICS system like they should have. So the fault lies with the Air Force and on Kelley for lying on the 4473.

 

[jonnyc]

But,...but,...but,...Universal Background Checks..........
I hope whomever can sue the Air Force for negligence

 

[Fyrstyk]

Once again, it is the feds that didn't provide the info that is needed for a back ground check. How many times have we heard this story? I haven't heard of any Dealers sell guns to disqualified people if their NICS check comes back with a negative report. Unfortunately, the excuse will be that more time is needed to process the review which will lead to longer and longer delays in getting a gun. Now there is a 3-day review period, the gun grabbers want that bumped up to ten days, and then it will continually be bumped up to even longer times. Back door gun control.

 

[Frank Ettin]

It looks like no one is actually interested in discussing the legal bases for the ruling. And indeed we can’t since no one has provide a link to the Florida Supreme Court’s opinion.