individual, don. so alex, based on all of that, what are officials saying about why this shooter still had a gun? well, that really is the big question. and it appears that he slipped through the cracks. so after that conviction he should have been put on what is called the national criminal information center database. it appears that he wasn t because the fbi tells us tonight that he didn t pop up on any of the fbi background checks that people go through when they try to buy a gun. those background checks are called knicks. take a listen to what the fbi special agent in charge had to say. i can tell you that for the four purchases that he made, the next system did their required checks and there was no prohibitive information in the systems that we checked that say that he could not have purchased that firearm. so now it does not look like the air force authorities relayed that conviction information to the civilian authorities. the air force along with the dod, the departme