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    Air Force error allowed Texas gunman to pass background checks, buy guns

    by Matt Pearce and Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times Nov 07, 2017 4 minutes

    NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - The U.S. Air Force failed to report the Texas church gunman's 2012 domestic violence court-martial to the FBI, which wrongly allowed him to pass background checks to buy guns, officials said Monday.

    The revelations came as experts wondered how Devin Patrick Kelley had been allowed to buy four guns between 2014 and 2017 despite spending a year in military prison and getting kicked out of the Air Force for assaulting his wife and reportedly cracking his stepson's skull.

    Investigators have recovered hundreds of shell casings and 15 empty ammo magazines inside the church where Kelley killed 26 people

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