Dylann Roof Could Not Legally Carry a Firearm
Source: truthrevolt.org
Many in the media and political spheres, including President Barack Obama, have used Wednesday’s tragic mass-shooting at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina to push for further restrictions on gun ownership. But radio host and Second Amendment warrior Dana Loesch has revealed that under current South Carolina law, shooter Dylann Roof was already ineligible to purchase or carry a firearm due to a previous felony conviction and would have failed a background check.
Loesch reports on her website that:
Roof was charged with felony possessionin February, 2015:
According to South Carolina court documents exclusively obtained by Radar, Roof, 21, was arrested in Lexington County on felony charges of possession of cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD on February 28, 2015.
This alone disqualified him from legal carry and purchase of a firearm. In South Carolina, you only have to be charged with a felony to lose your 2A right. Roof would have failed a background check to purchase a firearm.
So how did Roof obtain the gun used in the mass homicide at the church? Not legally. Loesch notes:
It was reported that his father purchased him a handgun for his 21st birthday. Roof's birthday is listed as April 4, 1994. His 21st birthday was this past April. Two months after he's charged with a felony his father buys him a gun? This means if his father purchased a gun for his birthday it was a straw purchase, a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
As Loesch includes in an addendum to her report, Jim Hoft is reporting in The Gateway Pundit that Roof stole the firearm used in the church shooting from his mother. She adds, “Either way, he stole a firearm, another felony charge.
Loesch concludes:
In order for laws to work, criminals must follow them.
Source: truthrevolt.org
