A major change that aims to keep more weapons out of the wrong hands is in the works for the FBI’s gun background check process.
Examiners will be given access to a large, previously untapped database of more than 400 million records as they determine when gun purchases can go through nationwide. But for the survivors and victims’ families of the 2015 church massacre in Charleston, S.C., the change did not come soon enough.
“It’s amazing it’s taken more than three years before an initial step can be taken by the FBI,” said Charleston attorney Andy Savage. He represents several families who lost loved ones to a white supremacist who attended Bible study at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and then repeatedly unloaded his Glock pistol, murdering nine African-American parishioners.
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