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2019TexasThe shooter previously failed a criminal background check when trying to purchase a gun, yet loopholes in our nation’s gun laws allowed him to bypass the background check system altogether and obtain the AR-style weapon used in his deadly attack from an unlicensed seller who wasn’t required to run a background check725
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2018WisconsinThe shooter found a Glock handgun on Armslist within days of his release from the Calumet County Jail. He bought it for $550 from a 19-year-old Kaukauna man in the parking lot of the Calumet Street Walmart. The next night, Sara, his wife, brought their three young children to his parents' home just outside Appleton, where he was staying by that time. In a scene that unfolded in public view that Tuesday evening, he fatally shot her as she sat trapped in the driveway in a minivan before he ran into the backyard. He shot himself as a sheriff's deputy closed in.2
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2016NevadaA woman was killed, and their two children shot by an ex-boyfriend, who purchased the gun from an unlicensed seller without a background check. He was prohibited from purchasing a firearm due to a domestic violence restraining order and a pending domestic battery case12
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2016Dallas, TXOn July 7, 2016, a 25-year-old shot and killed five police officers and injured nine more officers and two civilians during a Dallas protest of police shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. In November 2014, the shooter bought an AK-47 style rifle in a private sale in a Target parking lot. The other weapons were believed to be purchased at a gun show or online.59
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2015South CarolinaOn June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white supremacist fatally shot nine people during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Then-FBI Director James Comey said Roof’s admission of a narcotics
offense should have blocked the purchase of the handgun. “The data was not properly entered in federal criminal justice computer systems,” said Comey. Roof picked up the gun after a three-day default proceed.		9
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2015TexasOn August 8, 2015, a 48-year-old shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, her husband, and her six children before being arrested after a police standoff. He handcuffed his ex-girlfriend to a bed and forced her to watch as her children and husband were shot. He bought the 9mm handgun and six pairs of handcuffs used in the attacks online in a private sale within two weeks of the shooting. His lengthy criminal record prohibited from possessing firearms. 8
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2014West VirginiaA gumnman killed four people, including his ex-girlfriend, with a gun he purchased from an online seller without a background check. He was prohibited from purchasing firearms due to multiple felony convictions4
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2012WisconsinIn October 2012, the individual purchased a handgun he found on Armslist and bought as he sat in the front seat of another man’s car in a McDonald’s parking lot.The next day, he walked into Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield and fatally shot his estranged wife and two other women, and wounded four others. He then fatally shot himself.44
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