WASHINGTON _ There is widespread agreement that avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof should not have been allowed to buy the gun he used to kill nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
There are profound disagreements, however, about what would have stopped Roof, who was facing drug charges, from walking away with the firearm.
These disagreements, which threaten the chance of enacting a law intended to prevent similar slayings, were on display Thursday as the Democratic-controlled U.S. House advanced legislation to close the so-called "Charleston loophole."
