The gunman in a mass shooting at a Texas church last year told a military judge in 2012 he “would never allow myself to hurt someone” again while admitting to abusing his stepson and a long struggle with anger, according to Air Force records obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Dean Winslow, a retired Air Force flight surgeon, had been stalled in committee since November after criticizing the legality of civilians owning assault rifles.
The Air Force on Tuesday said it has found dozens of database reporting lapses of the same kind that may have allowed the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooter to buy guns despite his domestic violence conviction.
Nebraska enacted the law in 2006. It prohibits protests near a cemetery, mortuary or church from one hour before the beginning of a funeral to two hours after.
Kyle Odom, a former Marine, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in July to an enhanced aggravated battery charge for shooting Tim Remington in the head, hand and side.
The former airman who shot and killed 26 people in a Texas church Sunday, previously escaped from a behavioral health hospital after being caught sneaking firearms on base and threatening to kill his superiors.