From: Conservative Tribune
By Kim Smith - November 8, 2017
Sen. Ted Cruz blasted the Obama administration for not prosecuting felons and criminals who lied on gun purchase forms, suggesting that it was the former president’s policies that enabled Texas murderer Devin Kelley to purchase a firearm.
In an interview on Fox News, the Texas senator explained how he and Sen. Chuck Grassley introduced legislation in 2013 that would have authorized the Air Force update to the National Criminal Information Center database and possibly flagged Kelley. However, the legislation was obstructed by a Democratic-led filibuster.
“This should have been stopped beforehand,” Cruz told host Shannon Bream.
The senator pointed out that it was already illegal for Kelley to purchase a firearm because of his prior convictions.
“Number one, the Air Force, the Obama Administration didn’t report those convictions to the NCIS data base,” Cruz said.
“It’s a problem at the federal government; it’s a problem with the states. And so, when he went in to buy the guns, they ran the background check, and they didn’t find it cause it wasn’t in the database,” he explained.
Cruz then went on to describe how this tragedy could have been prevented.
“But I’ll tell you: we could have prevented this. In 2013, in the wake of Sandy Hook, I joined with Chuck Grassley, we introduced legislation that was called the Grassley-Cruz legislation, and it was aggressive legislation targeting felons and violent criminals to stop them from getting guns,” the senator said.
The tragedy could also have been avoided if Kelley, who lied on the gun purchase forms, had been prosecuted. Cruz pointed to the fact that it’s a felony to lie on such forms and the Obama administration didn’t prosecute those cases.
“In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns; they (the Obama administration) prosecuted only 44 of them,” the senator said.
Why weren’t there more prosecutions?
NBC News reported that Kelley had both a conviction carrying a sentence of over a year as well as a domestic violence conviction — both of which should have prevented him from buying a firearm in 2016.
It’s immensely frustrating to know that this horrible atrocity could have been prevented.
Democrats have already used this incident to call for stricter gun measures, but the sickening thing is that they could have already done something that might have prevented this shooting from happening in the first place.
Hopefully, the Trump administration can solve this problem before more tragedies occur.
Please like and share this story on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about how Democrats killed legislation that might’ve prevented this shooting.
God bless,
JohnnyD
By Kim Smith - November 8, 2017
Sen. Ted Cruz blasted the Obama administration for not prosecuting felons and criminals who lied on gun purchase forms, suggesting that it was the former president’s policies that enabled Texas murderer Devin Kelley to purchase a firearm.
In an interview on Fox News, the Texas senator explained how he and Sen. Chuck Grassley introduced legislation in 2013 that would have authorized the Air Force update to the National Criminal Information Center database and possibly flagged Kelley. However, the legislation was obstructed by a Democratic-led filibuster.
“This should have been stopped beforehand,” Cruz told host Shannon Bream.
The senator pointed out that it was already illegal for Kelley to purchase a firearm because of his prior convictions.
“Number one, the Air Force, the Obama Administration didn’t report those convictions to the NCIS data base,” Cruz said.
“It’s a problem at the federal government; it’s a problem with the states. And so, when he went in to buy the guns, they ran the background check, and they didn’t find it cause it wasn’t in the database,” he explained.
Cruz then went on to describe how this tragedy could have been prevented.
“But I’ll tell you: we could have prevented this. In 2013, in the wake of Sandy Hook, I joined with Chuck Grassley, we introduced legislation that was called the Grassley-Cruz legislation, and it was aggressive legislation targeting felons and violent criminals to stop them from getting guns,” the senator said.
The tragedy could also have been avoided if Kelley, who lied on the gun purchase forms, had been prosecuted. Cruz pointed to the fact that it’s a felony to lie on such forms and the Obama administration didn’t prosecute those cases.
“In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns; they (the Obama administration) prosecuted only 44 of them,” the senator said.
Why weren’t there more prosecutions?
NBC News reported that Kelley had both a conviction carrying a sentence of over a year as well as a domestic violence conviction — both of which should have prevented him from buying a firearm in 2016.
It’s immensely frustrating to know that this horrible atrocity could have been prevented.
Democrats have already used this incident to call for stricter gun measures, but the sickening thing is that they could have already done something that might have prevented this shooting from happening in the first place.
Hopefully, the Trump administration can solve this problem before more tragedies occur.
Please like and share this story on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about how Democrats killed legislation that might’ve prevented this shooting.
God bless,
JohnnyD
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