{"id":77685,"date":"2018-02-13T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77685"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:00:49","slug":"4000-vets-added-to-nics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77685","title":{"rendered":"4000+ vets added to NICS"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN<\/a> reports that more than 4000 veterans were added to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) used for background checks for gun buyers in the wake of the Sutherland Springs shooting by an Air Force veteran of some innocent church goers. The veteran had been booted from the service for spousal abuse which should have prevented him from buying a gun, had his name been added to NICS as it should have been.<\/p>\n

In the months since, the US Department of Defense has scrambled to ensure all of its branches have properly updated the FBI’s system to track personnel kicked out of the military who are barred from owning firearms.<\/p>\n

That push, a CNN review has found, has uncovered a backlog so significant that the FBI’s tally of dishonorably discharged former service members has ballooned by 4,284 names in just three months, a 38% leap…Since 2015, the number of people barred from owning firearms because they were dishonorably discharged had hovered at about 11,000, according to FBI statistics published online. That number suddenly jumped to 14,825 last November, then to 15,583 in December. It now stands at 15,597.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good. That’s the way it should be, but you can bet that some of those thousands purchased guns before the NICS update.<\/p>\n

A 1997 inspector general report noted that the military was often neglecting to notify the FBI when someone was convicted. The Navy failed to do so 93% of the time; the Army, 79% of the time. The report’s authors blamed poor policies that put “little emphasis” on sharing the information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m also convinced that many non-military gate keepers to NICS data aren’t reporting accurately either. Not making excuses for the Pentagon, just making an observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN reports that more than 4000 veterans were added to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background … 4000+ vets added to NICS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}