Family Who Lost Eight Members in Sutherland Springs Shooting Targets Government With Notice of Claim Allegations

Papa Joe and Claryce are committed to making sure no other family has to suffer such a devastating preventable loss. The family is now filing a federal claim form with U.S. Government to determine negligence. 

"Under a 1996 law preventing spouse and child abusers from possessing firearms, the service's Office of Special Investigations should have entered that conviction into an FBI database," says the family's attorney Rob Ammons. "The office didn't, the Air Force has admitted. What's more, the acts Kelley pleaded guilty to — breaking his baby stepson's skull and hitting and kicking his then-wife — were punishable by imprisonment of more than a year. That qualifies them as felonies, which must be entered into the database."

Devin Kelley purchased a Ruger AR-566 rifle at an Academy Sports & Outdoors in San Antonio which he used in the mass killing.  Reports indicate the store ran a background check on him twice.  He passed both of them.

Rob Ammons is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, in addition to being Board Certified in Civil Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Rob Ammons' law practice, The Ammons Law Firm, is located in Houston, Texas. www.ammonslaw.com 

SOURCE The Ammons Law Firm

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