{"id":72231,"date":"2022-07-06T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T21:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-was-robert-crimo-able-to-legally-buy-guns-after-he-threatened-to-kill-his-family"},"modified":"2022-07-06T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T21:45:28","slug":"how-was-robert-crimo-able-to-legally-buy-guns-after-he-threatened-to-kill-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-was-robert-crimo-able-to-legally-buy-guns-after-he-threatened-to-kill-his-family","title":{"rendered":"How was Robert Crimo able to legally buy guns after he threatened to kill his family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are mounting around how the suspected gunman who murdered seven and wounded dozens more parade-goers at a July 4 celebration in Illinois was able to legally purchase a trove of firearms despite threatening to kill his own family. Robert Crimo was approved for a state firearm permit &#8211; an FOID (Firearm Owner&#8217;s Identification) card &#8211; in January 2020, just four months after Highland Park police were called to his home because he said he was going to &#8220;kill everyone&#8221; inside with a &#8220;collection of knives&#8221;. Over the next two years, he then passed four federal background checks, enabling him to legally purchase five firearms including two high-powered rifles, two handguns and a shotgun. On Monday, he then allegedly used one of those firearms &#8211;&nbsp; a high-powered Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P 15 rifle &#8211; to carry out a horrific mass shooting in Highland Park where families, friends and local residents had gathered to enjoy Independence Day celebrations. So what went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are mounting around how the suspected gunman who murdered seven and wounded dozens more parade-goers at a July 4 celebration in Illinois was able to legally purchase a trove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-72231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}