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Shooting something going wrong. evan? >> one of the things that was supposed to happen after 2007 in the virginia tech massacre was an encouragement for the states to more accurately reflect mental health records in the background system. what exactly has happened since then that allowed this issue to occur yet again. >> i can tell you i have worked in probably three quarters of the states in the united states. its done very differently in every state. some states have a industry amount of resou...

Triggered him to not be able to buy that. had he not been able to buy it he couldnt have sat in that church and killed them all and conducted this massacre. we found out this was not a failure of the states gun laws. and south carolinas state gun laws are very liberal and probably going to get more liberal. this was a failure of the federal system. well see if this prompts them to look at the background system and the three-day expiration period. had the fbi obtained those records and needed to ...

Work. the fact that this background system check failed with regard to mr. roof is quite telling that we need to revisit the issue and tighten up -- we need to close the gun show loophole. when people are selling guns between each other, they need to do a background check, the same way you do it in a store. you do it in a store,y you fill out a form they take down your social security number and they make a phone call and they learn whether or not you can buy a firearm. its that simple. the excu...

Carolina church the director said basically its the fbis fault. there were a series of errors he talked about and all started with the background check system. a clerical error in the background check system and confusion with the paperwork. so bottom line here brooke is that the fbi examiner doing the paperwork never made the discovery that they admitted to columbia police that he had possessed drugs. had the examiner made that discovery, dylann roof would have been denied the ability to purcha...

First we want to talk to our justice correspondent pamela brown. >> this shows a huge breakdown in the background system which is run by the fbi, fbi director comey admitting a series of errors enables roof to buy the gun that killed those churchgoers. the man who confessed to gunning down nine people inside a south carolina church should never have been able to buy the the .45-caliber gun he used to kill them. that bombshell coming from fbi director james comey, who told reporters in a closed-d...

The company to block the service over its allegedly shoddy background techs. cnn money technology correspondent rory segal has more on the story. >> its been a rough couple weeks. you had a passenger allegedly raped in new delhi. this isnt good for the companys image. you go to their own back yard in california where the business is booming. they decided that theyve been sending cease and desist orders for the past year. the san francisco d.a. says theres something wrong with the screening proce...

To link anything on mental health with an effort on the expanded background checks. that may be your preference. i dont know. but do you want to not see your bill pass if it ends up -- if it gets tied to the gun control, politics of that, and then your bill doesnt pass, is that a failure? >> well, i certainly didnt want to see the mental health bill in the house or the senate for that matter go down. i think its important that we go forward. i also believe that expanded background checks are an ...

>> they did. they ran the background check through that federal database. you know, the criminal background system, its a federal database. its instant. its done on site. he was waiting inside while they ran this, like i said he was here for a couple of hours. the problem was there were no convictions, nothing that was a red flag that would tell the gun shop owners you cant sell this gun to this man. here in virginia, you cant legally buy a handgun with an out-of-state license. but you can buy a...

Victory by folks in the nra. he criticized the obama administration for failing to prosecute the felons and fugitives trying to purchase guns under the existing background system. lets listen to more of what he had to say. >> i would like to invite the vice president if he believes the answer to violent crime is not prosecuting felons and fugitives and not prosecuting guns rights but going after the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens, i would like to invite the vice president to engag...

One thing that we need to do, too, make sure that we investigate the fact that these guys had guns. have they slipped through our background system? that is an important inquiry, too. i hope we are looking into the question as to whether they had those guns legally. i know they were in the country legally. >> we know that the 19-year-old was under age so he wouldnt be abe to pass a background check on that alone. that is part of the investigation. neither of them had a license to carry a gun in ...