The person accused of happening a shooting rampage at a Southern California enterprise, killing 4 folks, shouldn’t have been allowed to purchase or personal weapons due to a California legislation that prohibits folks from buying weapons for 10 years after being convicted of a criminal offense. Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez was convicted of battery in 2015, which ought to have stored him from possessing or shopping for weapons or ammo at shops that conduct background checks. Whereas it is unclear how Gaxiola, 44, acquired the weapons used within the March 31 taking pictures, the tragedy raises considerations over California’s skill to implement strict gun management legal guidelines, the Sacramento Bee reported on Friday,

Police say Gaxiola had focused Unified Houses, the cell dwelling brokerage firm in Orange, and had private and enterprise relationships with the victims. His estranged spouse had labored within the enterprise for greater than 10 years as a dealer assistant.

The taking pictures occurred practically six years after Gaxiola pleaded responsible to misdemeanor battery, which ought to have put him on the record prohibiting him from proudly owning firearms for the following 10 years. The record is used in the course of the state’s gun and ammunition background examine course of.

Two weeks after the mass taking pictures, police discovered Gaxiola was not on the “Prohibited Individuals Checklist,” although he would possibly nonetheless have been blocked from shopping for a gun throughout a regular background examine, Orange Police Lt. Jennifer Amat stated.

Detectives have been nonetheless engaged on tracing the Glock semi-automatic handgun and ammunition, she stated.

It is uncommon {that a} background examine misses a prohibited individual, or {that a} vendor would resolve to nonetheless promote to a banned buyer, stated Steve Lindley, a former California Division of Justice Bureau of Firearms chief who now works as a program supervisor on the Brady Marketing campaign to Stop Gun Violence.

Even with all of the stopgaps in a “very, excellent system,” Lindley stated, folks nonetheless purchase weapons illegally.

“Sadly, the place you might have strict gun legal guidelines, there’ll at all times be a marketplace for unlawful firearms,” Lindley stated. “As a result of folks wish to get them a technique or one other.”

California in 2016 turned the primary and solely state within the nation to ascertain the Armed and Prohibited Individuals System for monitoring firearm homeowners who fall right into a prohibited class based mostly on their legal histories or their danger to themselves or others.