They were people who wanted a gun to fix their problems. They were known to police for assaulting lovers and spouses, using guns in violent crimes and being addicts. They knew that they would fail the FBI’s background checks, so they went online and found private gun sellers who took their cash and asked few questions.

Wisconson’s Radcliffe Haughton was under court order to stay away from his wife Zina Daniel. But he went to Armslist.comin October 2012 and bought a Glock handgun that he used the next day to kill her and two co-workers before commiting suicide. In Illinois the previous April, Dmitry Smirnov also bought a gun on Armslist that he used to kill Jitka Vesel, after stalking her to her job and shooting her 11 times in the parking lot.

Armslist.com is like a Craigslist for firearms. Created by “gun owning and gun loving Americans” in 2009, it takes no responsibility for whatever transpires “in transactions between parties,” it states. Yet it is at the forefront of one of the biggest loopholes in America’s gun laws: private sales that evade FBI criminal background checks.

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