Incredible failure of states gun laws: dealer sells gun used to murder sheriff
If this is an "incredible failure," what does that make the hundreds or thousands of murders annually in Chicago, DC, and other places where guns are strictly regulated if not outright prohibited? I'm curious to see how you categorize that and which adjective you'd care to use.
If that seller broke existing laws, how would new laws keep anyone else from doing the same?
The dealer didn't he ran the background check according to the link, he wasn't properly added to the database. It's a failure of whatever government agency was responsible for updating the system. Nothing about this screams for more knee jerk legislation.