[Al Jazeera] A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an effort by three major US cities to require the Pentagon to be more vigilant about reporting service members who were disqualified from owning weapons to a national background check system.
By a three-to-zero vote, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it lacked jurisdiction to compel the Department of Defense to fix what New York City, Philadelphia and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
called a "broken" system, or to supervise improvements to the Pentagon's "partial and inconsistent reporting".
The lawsuit was filed seven weeks after former Air Force member Devin Kelley killed 26 people on November 5, 2017 at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church before killing himself.
Kelley, 26, was convicted in a 2012 court martial of assaulting his wife and stepson and should not have been allowed to possess weapons.
But his conviction had not been entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
The cities said the Pentagon had failed to report some 15,000 current or former personnel who could not own guns because of court martial convictions or dishonorable discharges, and that this undermined their ability to fight violent crime.
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