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Federal judge finds U.S. government inaction mostly to blame for Sutherland Springs mass shooting

Federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez said the U.S. Air Force's failure to report the shooter's domestic violence conviction to the FBI allowed him to purchase the gun used in Texas' deadliest mass shooting.

Hannah Krueger adds a cross to a memorial near the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs on Nov. 8, 2017, three days after 23 churchgoers were killed in a mass shooting there.

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