How Did Dylan Roof Get His Gun

The washington post reported on july 10 2015 that fbi director james comey said that roof was able to purchase the gun used in the attack only because of lapses in the fbi s background check system.

How did dylan roof get his gun.

Two months before dylann roof gunned down nine people at mother emanuel ame church in charleston south carolina he went to buy a 45 caliber glock pistol at a gun store in a rundown strip mall. How dylann roof got his gun. Cnn and the new york times have both reported that roof bought the gun himself at a store in charleston. Mass murdering racist dylann roof prepared for the deadly.

By the editorial board. The 21 year old should have been barred from purchasing the gun due to an earlier drug arrest. A judge ruled thursday that roof accused of. Agents a failure by local prosecutors to.

A troubled portrait of roof emerged as the shocked nation mourned nine people gunned down because of their race at a prayer meeting. Dylann roof bought the semiautomatic handgun he used in last week s church shooting at a gun store 25 miles from his home according to officials familiar with the sale. The fbi said friday that the confusion. Jul 17 2015 at 12 55 pm.

South carolina is one of 40 states that do not require background checks for. Dylann roof appears at a court hearing in charleston s c on july 16. And when roof wanted to buy the 45 caliber glock handgun in april the fbi had to call the lexington sheriff s department to find out where he was arrested. Roof personally purchased the gun used in the shooting from a retail gun store in west columbia using money given to him on his birthday.

According to his uncle roof received a 45 caliber pistol from his father in april for his birthday reuters reports.