A 65-year-old woman, Harriet Deison, shot herself Saturday while in her Lexus sedan in the parking lot of the Far East Dallas Gun Shop where she had just bought a pistol.
Dallas police says:
The gun Deison, a pastor’s wife, mother of two and grandmother to five, is believed to have shot herself with is the same one she had just purchased.
Police say no suicide note was found on the scene.
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According to the Dallas News the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plans to send an investigator early this week. They report:
ATF spokesman Andrew Young said that in all such situations, the ATF reviews the shop’s procedures and the application the customer completed before the purchase. He estimated that the application process and background check take about 20 minutes.
Before buying a gun at a store, a customer must fill out a form with personal information, show a government-issued ID and pass a background check based on a national directory called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
“At that point, if the background check is passed, they buy a gun and walk out with a gun,” Young said. There is no waiting period in Texas, he said.
However Young also states that this type of inicident can occur even if a gun store follows the law.
Our prayers and condolences are with the Deison family.
SOURCE: Dallas News
