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how does that raise a red flag since he passed all the checks and was a former IRS official? The government isn't allowed to register firearms nor is there any reason for someone with a clean record to be subject to scrutiny for buying guns.
why do you and others call them "high capacity magazines" which is a dishonest term. Since no one had ever used a "bump fire" stock to harm others that we know of, why would that raise any flags? HOW MANY Other cases similar to this have occurred
that being
a multimillionaire who was trustworthy enough to
1) work for the IRS
2) hold a CPA
3) hold an active pilots license
4) own two planes
5) had no criminal record, was not under indictment, had never indicated any mental illness, was not addicted to drugs, etc and had his background checked dozens of times in the last few years
planned and plotted for at least a year-including recon trips to Chicago-bought electronic surveillance etc-a massacre
I would argue this is so different than anything we have ever seen that attempting to pretend current laws could have stopped it is idiotic.
Listen. The most painless (for you) approach to trying to adress this is enhancing background checks. Enhancing to the point where that guy, Pollack? would trigger a closer look, maybe a chat with his doctor who found him 'strange' and flat-affect. If you don't find a way to try to keep guns out of the hands of psychos (and don't give me any crap about enforcing laws- there's no laws that prevent psychos like the Vegas guy buying an arsenal, as you pointed out.) if you don't help find a way, a way will be found without your input. You can bleat, "But you can't do that!" all you want and still watch while it's done.
Play a long game, that's my advice. Those marching students that are getting shat upon now will be voters in 2020, and thousands of others too. You guys better help find a workable solution, or take the consequences.