A White gunman who killed three Black people at a Jacksonville Dollar General store Saturday legally purchased the two firearms used in the racially motivated attack, local law enforcement confirmed.

The man, identified Sunday as 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter of Clay County, Fla., on Saturday drove to Edward Waters University, a historically Black college, but was refused entry, according to the school. He then drove to the nearby store, where he opened fire using an AR-15-style rifle inscribed with Nazi insignia, authorities said.

Police described a methodic rampage that lasted less than 11 minutes and killed Angela Michelle Carr, 52; Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr., 19; and Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29.

Jacksonville police on Sunday said law enforcement had been called about Palmeter previously in a domestic incident, and he also had been held during a mental health crisis. But those cases did not result in a criminal record, so there was no legal reason to stop him from acquiring the guns he purchased this year between April and July.

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    “law enforcement had been called about Palmeter previously in a domestic incident, and he also had been held during a mental health crisis”

    God forbid we have red flag laws in this country. They only make perfect sense and enjoy majority support among Americans.

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      ERPOs are shit. Dude was held on a mental health hold, that should have been flagged in the BGC…and if the fucking NICS would be opened to anyone so you can run a BGC on people you sell firearms to, this would have way more effective than ERPOs that do nothing but give police even more reasons to do knocks and get people killed.

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      God forbid we have red flag laws in this country. They only make perfect sense and enjoy majority support among Americans.

      Because of the gun lobby. They pay big money to ensure stuff like this does not happen.

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        Make guns easy to get, so all the unarmed people will be afraid of the people with guns. A lot of them will buy guns to protect themselves from the other people with guns. And the circle continues until everyone is armed to the hilt all the time.

        They know how to sell guns.

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      domestic incident

      Previous incidents included a 2016 domestic call to his home that did not result in an arrest, police said.

      mental health crisis

      A year later, he was temporarily detained for emergency health services under Florida’s Baker Act law.

      So the shooter, Palmeter, was 21. This means the little they were able to dig up about his past comes from when he was 15 years old.

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      Supreme Court to Consider Whether Domestic Abusers Can Own Guns

      At issue is a 1994 amendment to the Federal Firearms Act that prohibits those who are actively subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

      California’s gov. Newsom is hellbent on changing this. Gov.CA - Newsom to Supreme Court: Uphold Law The state is having to fight these federal laws, too, as in their state they want to even more restrict the right of Domestic Abusers from owning firearms - good reason, too LA times: domestic abusers can still own firearms