WASHINGTON — The Justice Department under Barack Obama directed the FBI to drop more than 500,000 names of fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, acting FBI deputy director David Bowdich testified Wednesday.
Fugitives from justice are barred from buying a firearm under federal law. But what is a fugitive from justice? That definition has been under debate by the FBI and the ATF.
According to The Washington Post, the FBI considered any person with an outstanding arrest warrant to be a fugitive. On the other hand, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives defined a fugitive as someone who has an outstanding arrest warrant and has crossed state lines.
That disagreement was settled at the end of Obama’s second term, when the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel sided with the ATF’s interpretation. Under President Donald Trump, the DOJ defined a fugitive as a person who went to another state to dodge criminal prosecution or evade giving testimony in criminal court, and implemented the Office of Legal Counsel’s decision. The decision meant that around half a million fugitives were removed from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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7 comments:
and they want to take my guns!
Well was the Florida shooter one of the deleted persons and who else of interest was deleted
So there's really no background checks on felons and fugitives, just law abiding citizens who want to buy firearms, right> That's what I just read?
Thanks, Obama.
Obama wanted to destroy the US , and he would use criminals and thugs to do it.
I would bet that somewhere in the FBI that data base still exists. Time to put it back in the system.
CORRUPTION, the gift that keeps on giving.
He is still trying.
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