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From: dragon13 <dragon13@pacbell.net>
Subject: Ineligible gun buyers can beat check system
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 13:50:43 -0700
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Ineligible gun buyers can beat check system
Sales OK'd if process takes more than 3 days
09/09/2000
By Todd Bensman / The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/166020_brady_09met.AR.html
The Brady law's new "instant background check" on gun buyers isn't always instant or foolproof, as David Jackson's family learned the hard way.
Jaron Ausbon killed Mr. Jackson last year in Louisiana with a handgun that a computerized FBI check was supposed to keep him from buying, because he was facing robbery and drug charges at the time.
All Mr. Ausbon had to do was falsify his birth date on the federal application form at a pawnshop, which made the FBI's computerized check take longer than the three business days allotted by law. So the shop legally transferred the weapon, and five weeks later Mr. Jackson, the father of a baby boy, was bleeding to death at a Baton Rouge carwash.
"A guy like Ausbon ... is smarter than any of our congressmen," said Tony Clayton, the prosecutor who helped put him behind bars. "They left all kinds of loopholes. The system is fatally flawed."
Although no tragedies like that which befell Mr. Jackson have been reported in North Texas since the background check became law in late 1998, federal investigators here say that the potential for one is high. They have investigated hundreds of cases in which people prohibited from purchasing weapons accused and convicted felons, fugitives, abusive spouses, the mentally ill, drug addicts, undocumented immigrants have succeeded in doing just that.
Full story: http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/166020_brady_09met.AR.html