How Did Dillon Roof Get His Gun

According to his uncle roof received a 45 caliber pistol from his father in april for his birthday reuters reports.

How did dillon roof get his gun.

By elisha fieldstadt a jailhouse clerical blunder was one of several oversights that permitted dylann roof to buy the weapon he used to gun down nine people in a south carolina church last month. After buying the murder weapon with his birthday money roof bought enough magazines to have 88 rounds which had racist symbolism richardson said. The washington post and reuters have reported that roof received the gun as a birthday gift. South carolina is one of 40 states that do not require background checks for.

State of south carolina. During a bible study at emanuel african methodist episcopal church roof killed nine people all african americans including senior pastor and state senator clementa c. Dylann roof was apprehended between 10 and 11 am on 18 june 2015 and the circumstances under which he was provided with food from burger king prior to his arraignment were not entirely clear. Dylann roof bought the semiautomatic handgun he used in last week s church shooting at a gun store 25 miles from his home according to officials familiar with the sale.

Dylann roof 21 was apprehended by shelby police on thursday. Roof a 21 year old high school dropout from columbia was arrested the morning after the massacre at the historic mother emanuel ame church which left nine worshippers dead. Agents a failure by local prosecutors to. He has been charged with nine counts of murder in a mass shooting inside the emanuel african methodist episcopal church in charleston south carolina last wednesday.

Dylann storm roof born april 3 1994 is an american white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the charleston church shooting on june 17 2015 in the u s. Despite having previously admitted to drug possession the man dylann roof 21 was allowed to buy the 45 caliber handgun because of mistakes by f b i.