Like most governmental CFs it will probably turn out to be the fault
of organizational leadership faulure. I'd be really surprised if any
one individual is charged with negligence, and I'd also bet that they
will find a lot of other lapses.
It is things like this that make me wonder why people can say the
government should be the solution to all of our problems when their
incompetence is demonstrated every day.
This is clearly a failure of the process and I agree there are going
to be thousands of other lapses in this flawed process. If people like
Harry want universal background checks they should, first, be
interested in the validity of the data that is used in that background
check. It does go both ways. There are people on the "no buy" list
that are on there by mistake (not an easy thing to fix) and there are
others who should be and aren't.
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And to add insult to injury, it is remarkably easy to make your own
undocumented, fully functional, AR-15 type, semi automatic rifle
because of loopholes in the regs. I wonder how long it will take for
some of those to show up.