From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily King.

Today, a domestic assault conviction should have stopped Devin Kelly from purchasing the rifle he used in the Texas Church.

Why it didn't?

And the President versus the courts.

It's Tuesday, November 7th.

Dave, yesterday we learned that the shooter at the church in the southern

and spring's Texas, Devin Kelly, was a member of the Air Force.

What are we learning about the circumstances under which he left the Air Force?

So he wasn't in the Air Force for very long. He joined in 2009.

Dave Phillips covers the military for the times.

And by 2012, he was in deep trouble.

He'd been court-martialed for assaulting his wife and his steps on his infant steps on and actually broke the baby's skull.

What more do you know about the assault?

We know that he fled guilty, said that he did it intentionally.

He served 12 months or at least was sentenced to 12 months of detention.

And then afterwards, he was kicked out with what's called a bad conduct discharge, which is next to the worst discharge you can get.

It's one above dishonorable.

So just to be clear, after this alleged conduct towards his wife and stepson,

he is sentenced to 12 months within the military system and he is discharged with bad conduct.

Did he have a different kind of criminal record because this played out inside the military than it would have if it had been a civilian system?

I think so. I think to a large extent, the civilian world doesn't really understand and communicate well with the military court system.

So in this case, he was charged with what in the civilian world we would have called felony level assault.

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