[familyop]

"Further, 11c : Have you been convicted of a crime punishable by a year or more (etc). Yes, he was locked up by the Air Force for a year. 11i: Have you ever been convicted in a criminal court of domestic abuse (I paraphrase). Someone dropped the ball big time on not getting his records uploaded to the civilian world. The system should have worked, and it failed somewhere. For some reason. Need to find that and fix it."

Thanks, Aut Pax Aut Bellum! What about that, goldstategop?

Actually, it's "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year." And there's also the problem for those convicted for misdemeanor domestic violence. So yes, someone in the system failed to properly do their job, and a relative of Kelley's might have slipped some big bucks to a court to clean up his history (increasingly as seen in corrupt countries).

18 U.S. Code § 922

[goldstategop]

Misdemeanor convictions are usually not flagged. Most of time they’re not worth writing home about and shouldn’t keep someone from buying a firearm.

People rightfully take felony convictions more seriously and for good reason.

I would say in hindsight the system worked. No one expects a guy with no previous criminal history to shoot up a church.

If you had asked Kelley a week ago if he would do a thing like that, he would probably have said “no.” With free will, what human beings do is impossible to predict.