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Dylann Roof Massacred Her Family—Here's Why She Wants Him Off Death Row On 3/1/21 at 7:28 AM EST The Reverend Sharon Risher had never dwelled much on the death penalty. That changed when her mother Ethel Lee Lance, two cousins and a childhood friend, along with six others, were shot dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. Almost six years on, their killer—white supremacist Dylann Roof—is languishing on federal death row. But Reverend Risher doesn't want him executed. "I was just like everybody else [who] believed in the deat...

Oregon takes aim at state gun law Loophole allows sales without background checks By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Published: February 20, 2021, 5:46pm Share: SALEM, Ore. — So many people are buying guns in Oregon these days that the state police are often unable to complete background checks in time, allowing the sales to proceed if the deadline isn’t met. A handful of Democratic lawmakers have now put forward a bill in the Oregon Legislature that would close this loophole. It’s often called the Charleston loophole because Dylann Roof was able to buy a gun that way, an...

Oregon lawmakers take aim at ‘Charleston’ loophole in state gun law Updated Feb 19, 2021; Facebook Share SALEM — So many people are buying guns in Oregon these days that the state police are often unable to complete background checks in time, allowing the sales to proceed if the deadline isn’t met. A handful of Democratic lawmakers have now put forward a bill in the Oregon Legislature that would close this loophole. It’s often called the Charleston loophole because Dylann Roof was able to buy a gun that way, and then murder nine Black people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcop...

On Thursday, Oregon representatives heard several public testimonies to why a federal gun loophole or the,

"The Charleston loophole": Purchases by people barred from buying guns skyrocketed in 2020 By Graham Kates Thousands of gun sales slip through loophole An unprecedented number of people who are legally barred from owning guns managed to buy them in 2020 through the so-called "Charleston loophole," according to data obtained by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The "loophole" allows gun dealers to complete sales after three days if a buyer's background check has not been completed by the FBI. If the agency later determines that the buyer should not have been allo...