Jeff Sessions Orders Review of Gun Background Check System

Jeff Sessions Orders Review of Gun Background Check System
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions waits to speak at the Federalist Society's 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2017. Reuters/Joshua Roberts
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday Nov. 23 ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after a man who killed 26 people in a Texas church was left off the system despite having a criminal record.

Sessions said the Nov. 5 shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, by Devin Kelley, a former Air Force serviceman who had a 2012 conviction for domestic assault, showed that not all the necessary information was being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).