In its brief, the DOJ pushed back on a judge’s finding that the U.S. government was 60 percent liable for the mass shooting.
to 84 victims and survivors of the shooting, who sued the government in 2018 after the Air Force admitted it had failed to report Kelley’s history of violence which should have prevented him from buying the guns used in the attack.
But attorneys for the Justice Department’s civil division, which is handling the appeal, offered a sweeping criticism of that ruling, repeatedly emphasizing the five-year gap between the period when Kelley was dismissed from the Air Force and when he purchased the assault rifle he would later use to kill churchgoers.The appeal acknowledges the government’s “failure to transmit information undermined the efficacy of a background-check system that should have prevented” Kelley from buying guns.
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