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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. it's done very differently in every state. some states have a industry amount of resources they place into this issue, and other states like north carolina and california -- sflef. ex...

Triggered him to not be able to buy that. had he not been able to buy it he couldn't have sat in that church and killed them all and conducted this massacre. we found out this was not a failure of the state's gun laws. and south carolina's state gun laws are very liberal and probably going to get more liberal. this was a failure of the federal system. we'll 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 look in the correct city of columbia not the county you may have been able to stop this man from...

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. it's that simple. the excuses that have been put forward for the last few years why we shouldn't have background checks or ex...

Carolina church the director said basically it's the fbi's 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 purchase the gun. he wouldn't have passed a background check. bottom line the fbi examiner did not make ...

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-door session his bureau made a mistake during dylann roof's background check, a mistake he saidwas "o...