(Reuters) -Two days before police say Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa armed himself with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle and a handgun and donned a tactical vest, he sat in his Arvada, Colorado, home fiddling with a gun. The sight alarmed his family. The gun did not look like a rifle featured in old...
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"Alissa, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria"
"There were criminal reports for a third-degree assault in 2017 and for criminal mischief in 2018, the department said."
"According to the court affidavit, Alissa had purchased a Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic pistol - a weapon that resembles a semi-automatic rifle and has a 30-round capacity - on March 16, six days before the shooting."
"The sight alarmed his family. The gun didn't look like a rifle featured in old Western movies, Alissa's sister-in-law told police, according to an arrest affidavit. Rather, it looked like a "machine gun."
"Alissa said a bullet had become stuck. The family took it away from him, upset he was playing with a gun in the house."
"His sister-in-law, whose name was redacted from the court document, told investigators that she believed the gun his family had taken from Alissa was back in his room as of Monday night."
How was he not prohibited?
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I am going to add that I thought I read earlier in the thread he was convicted to a three yer stint for something. That is why I feel perplexed that he was able to buy a firearm. I thought all firearm sales required a federal background check. Either I am wrong or he wasn't ever convicted or there is a serious problem with the system, or all three.