Background Checks are the answer, right? Not so fast. :: 05/10/2014

"Pittsburgh police on Thursday terminated a recruit who passed a background check even though he was wanted in Massachusetts on a decade-old felony arrest warrant.

Elijah Hill, 36, of Crafton Heights said he moved to Pittsburgh to begin 11 months of training as a police recruit on March 17, but when he tried to buy his service weapon two weeks later, a gun store employee ran a state-required background check and told him he was denied. He said he immediately told a sergeant at the training academy, who found the 2002 arrest warrant filed in Essex County. Hill said he didn't know about the warrant."

We'vebeen trying to explain why background checks are only as good as the information that is on record.

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/6081281-74/hill-police-recruit#axzz31EKLQzf8