Posted on 06/27/2021 2:07:28 PM PDT by rktman
The Texas Supreme Court is on a roll. Yesterday I wrote about a groundbreaking decision made by the court that Facebook can be held liable for sex traffickers who use the social media platform to recruit and prey on children. Today there is a “landmark” decision to be heralded from the court. A retail sports chain cannot be held responsible for selling a gun used in a massing shooting.
The mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in 2017 resulted in the deaths of 25 innocent churchgoers and 20 injured. A madman entered the church during Sunday morning services and opened fire. Those murdered included a pregnant woman. He turned the gun on himself after that, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. This horrific event is Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting. The attention turned to the mass shooter, a 26-year-old former airman, and how he came to have possession of his weapon, a Model 8500 Ruger AR-556, fitted with a 30-round magazine. The former airman had a troubled military record – he served a year in confinement after an assault conviction in 2012 and was released from the USAF in 2014 with a bad conduct discharge. He lived in Comal County, outside of San Antonio. Apparently, this developed from a domestic dispute and his mother-in-law was a member of the church.
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I wish I could email the relevant members of the government to “Hold tight!!! you’re going to win this one. Just hold tight because Brussels will back down before allowing any more countries to secede..”
I thought a BCD prohibited you from possessing firearms.
If you run down someone with a Tesla is Elon Muck responsible?
It takes a Dishonorable to do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_discharge#Punitive_discharges
“I thought a BCD prohibited you from possessing firearms.”
Not if that nominally-military organization known as the USAF fails to forward the information for entry into the database.
How about commonsense.
overlooked the “/s”, right?
The Texas Supreme Court simply followed the law. Today, that is very big news.
The writer left out some salient facts - the shooter took his own life because a good guy with a gun chased him down and confronted him. See link below:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3602365/posts
so much for that NICS check thing...
That about sums it up. Should have been dismissed in lower court.
Great news if you only have stores in Texas.
But the national chains will still fear lawsuits and won’t change their national policy although they might in Texas...
It will have to jump jurisdictions to do that. The decision was in a state, not federal court system.
Exactly. How the HELL is Academy Sports going to know what the government doesn’t report???
Hey, wait a minute. I’m retired Air Force. WE fight. At least our officers do.
Well, the amendments aren’t ‘absolute’ as we’ve been reminded. You know like the 13th and 19th. We already know the 4th, 2nd and 1st are violated consistently.
It doesn’t, unless the BCD is for Lautenberg Amendment violations (domestic abuse). From the perp’s wikipedia page:
“In October 2012, he was charged with assaulting his wife and fracturing his toddler stepson’s skull.”
His BCD on these charges *should* have banned him from owning firearms... except the Air Force couldn’t be bothered to file it it properly with NICS like they were legally obligated to. Sadly, this extended the surprisingly high percentage of mass shooters that were cleared by NICS when they weren’t supposed to be.
See my post 17 above.
Since John Dillinger wrote to thank Henry Ford for his reliable Ford getaway cars, there was a chance for the morons to say a car manufacturer caused an accident by a drunk driver in a school zone who was driving 70.
Same with the naughty guns that create “gun violence” while gun owners aren’t watching. While the owners sleep.
Military incompetence overrides rules.
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