SheepDog4Life
Natural Gray Man
"Allowed the sale" and asked the FFL "not to impede" = "illegal sale"?If the FBI were playing by the book (I know - ) they would have put the information on this guy into the system and he would have failed the NICS check and no gun would be sold.
Instead they do just the opposite and tell the store to sell him the gun.
It says that in fairly plain English.
I'd say there are a lot of assumptions in that, one of which you point to... whether the dude was not already flagged in NICS as an improper person.
IF you're arguing they should have nabbed him as soon as he signed the 4473 as intent to purchase the firearm to carry out his plan... no disagreements here.