{"id":2135,"date":"2013-09-17T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2013-09-19T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:06:02","slug":"how-gun-laws-factor-into-the-navy-yard-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/how-gun-laws-factor-into-the-navy-yard-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gun Laws Factor Into The Navy Yard Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Annie-Rose Strasser, Think Progress
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Twelve people died and several others were injured on Monday at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, at the hands of gunman Aaron Alexis. Originally of Fort Worth, Texas, Alexis was a military contractor. He was killed as authorities sought control of the crime scene early Monday.<\/p>\n

While police are still on the lookout for a potential accomplice in the mass shooting, details are leaking out about Alexis and they point to a disturbing history of gun violence.<\/p>\n

According to his hometown newspaper,\u00a0The Star-Telegram<\/a>, Alexis has had previous gun-related incidents:<\/p>\n

Tarrant County court records show Alexis was\u00a0arrested in September 2010 for allegedly discharging a firearm within a municipality<\/strong>. The records do not indicate that Alexis was ever formally charged in the case.<\/p>\n

Later that same month, Tarrant County court records show that The Orion at Oak Hill apartments in Fort Worth began eviction efforts against Alexis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alexis\u2019s former roommate told\u00a0told the Star-Telegram<\/a>\u00a0that the gunman owned a semiautomatic weapon and a concealed handgun license.<\/p>\n

Under federal law, it\u2019s very likely that Alexis was still able to legally posses a firearm. Permanent bans on gun ownership are only handed out to very specific groups of people including felons, domestic abusers, and the seriously mentally ill. Some states,\u00a0like California<\/a>\u00a0(PDF), have laws that more strictly limit gun purchases for people with certain firearms charges, but Texas isn\u2019t one of these states. In fact, in nearly half of states, officials are still able to give a handgun permit to someone with a history like Alexis\u2019s.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0reports from the scene<\/a>\u00a0are right, however, Alexis\u2019s gun possession Monday was illegal no matter his gun history. News outlets indicate that Alexis had as many as three weapons, including a semi-automatic AR15. The AR15 is banned in DC.<\/p>\n

The AR 15 has been the focal point of much controversy over gun laws, since it qualified under the expired Assault Weapons Ban. AR15s were also used in the horrific shooting at a movie theater in\u00a0Aurora, Colorado<\/a>last year that left 12 dead and 58 injured. It was also the weapon used in the\u00a0tragic massacre<\/a>\u00a0of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut last year. One of the gun regulations President Obama proposed earlier this year would\u00a0outlaw the sale<\/a>\u00a0of AR15s and other military-grade weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Annie-Rose Strasser, Think Progress click here for original article Twelve people died and several others were injured on Monday at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, at the hands of gunman Aaron Alexis. Originally of Fort Worth, Texas, Alexis was a military contractor. He was killed as authorities sought control of the crime scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Aaron-Alexis-FBI-Image-e1379363504979-300x200.jpg?fit=164%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}