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FBI testimony confirms Obama DOJ ordered 500,000 fugitives purged from background check database

While Democrats throw tantrums over who should and shouldn’t have guns, it seems the Obama administration was pretty adept at getting weapons into the hands of some people.

Acting FBI deputy director David Bowdich confirmed that it was a decision made under the direction of the Obama administration that led to more than half a million fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants to have their names removed from a national database.

The interpretation of a “fugitive from justice” to refer to wanted people who have crossed state lines was determined by former President Obama’s Justice Department which directed the FBI to drop more than 500,000 names from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Bowdich testified about the decision during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the failed response of the FBI and law enforcement in preventing the Parkland, Florida mass shooting last month which claimed the lives of 17 people.

California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked Bowdich about the Justice Department memo which forced the removal of the names by the FBI.

“That was a decision that was made under the previous administration,” Bowdich testified.

“It was the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel that reviewed the law and believed that it needed to be interpreted so that if someone was a fugitive in a state, there had to be indications that they had crossed state lines,” he explained. “Otherwise they were not known to be a fugitive under the law in the way it was interpreted.”

While a person with an outstanding arrest warrant was considered to be a fugitive by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used the term for someone who had the warrant and had also crossed state lines, according to The Washington Post.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel accepted the definition by the ATF at the end of Obama’s term, denying gun purchases only to fugitives who cross state lines.

Once President Trump took office, the Justice Department narrowed that interpretation to mean anyone who fled across state lines to avoid criminal prosecution or to evade giving testimony. Thus more than 500,000 fugitives were removed from the NICS.

here is a video of Bowdich saying that:

https://youtu.be/g6WWtUl0VdU

did Feinstein think she was catching the Trump administration ?


from

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03...ound-check-database/

again this just confirms that the biggest threat to the safety of Americans is democrats

I don't get it. They want to remove guns from the populace but want to allow fugitives to buy?

That last paragraph/sentence is trying to squarely pin it on the Trump administration, isn't it?

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Originally posted by Shaql:
That last paragraph/sentence is trying to squarely pin it on the Trump administration, isn't it?

Sure seems it.

The admin still in place was from the previous potus ... Looks like a last ditch effort to implement obumers liberalism.

Just think if killery would have been elected ...man where would we be now ....

Just remember, this is why we can’t have nice things anymore.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I don't get it. They want to remove guns from the populace but want to allow fugitives to buy?

Does that surprise you? Remember Fast and Furious and shipping weapons to the cartels in Mexico.

Manufacturing a crisis.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I don't get it. They want to remove guns from the populace but want to allow fugitives to buy?

When your ultimate goal is to confiscate ALL guns, best to let the most likely to abuse them do so, then you can use the lowest common denominator argument to confiscate ALL of them.

Fast and Furious much?

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Originally posted by Snapping Twig:

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Originally posted by konata88:
I don't get it. They want to remove guns from the populace but want to allow fugitives to buy?

When your ultimate goal is to confiscate ALL guns, best to let the most likely to abuse them do so, then you can use the lowest common denominator argument to confiscate ALL of them.

Fast and Furious much?

My thoughts exactly.

18USC922(g)(2): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922

18USC921(a)(15): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/921

Reading the actual relevant statutes is important.

While the first citation prohibits a "fugitive from justice" from possessing firearms and/or ammunition, the second citation defines "fugitive from justice."

That definition is, "any person who has fled from any State to avoid prosecution for a crime or to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding." (emphasis added)