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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Dishonorable discharges are banned from owning firearms, so his guns must have been illegally obtained, so tighter gun control laws wouldn't have done much in his case anyway.

According to this article he bought it from a proper shop but would have just ticked "no" to the felony question so infact tighter gun laws and actually checking people out properly would absolutely have helped

On the federal government's firearm transaction record, which buyers must legally fill out, Kelley would have had to state that he had never been convicted of a felony. Both Kelley's assault counts likely went down as felonies. Lying on the firearms transaction record is an additional felony punishable by up to five years in jail.

Kelley bought a Ruger AR-556 rifle, used in the attack on the church in Sutherland Springs, in April 2016 from an Academy Sports & Outdoors store in San Antonio, a law enforcement official told CNN.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/texas-...7-11?r=US&IR=T