GUN SHOP OWNER SAYS BROESCHE PURCHASED RIFLE DESPITE FELONY WARRANT

  

A 2015 Brenham High School graduate and former Eagle Scout was able to purchase an assault-style rifle from an Austin gun store despite having a felony arrest warrant.

That’s according to the owner of the store that sold the gun.

23-year-old Dalton Broesche was arrested on August 14^th after Austin police responded to reports of an armed man at Pease Park.  According to an arrest affidavit, Broesche was taken into custody after he was found with a loaded 9mm handgun with another loaded magazine, an extendable metal baton, two knives, and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle loaded with a 30-round magazine and fitted with a bipod, scope, and tac light.

Broesche was booked into the Travis County Jail for the weapon charges, along with a Harris County arrest warrant stemming from a domestic violence incident in Hockley. In that incident, Broesche is accused of hitting his girlfriend with an open hand multiple times, pushing her out of his room, grabbing a knife and threatening to stab his father.

The Austin American-Statesman reports that Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works, sold Broesche the rifle in July after waiting three days for a background check.  Cargill said in the report that the felony warrant should have stopped Broesche from buying the gun, but the warrant did not appear in the background check. Therefore, Broesche was able to pass the check and purchase the rifle despite the warrant for Aggravated Assault of a Family member.

According to Cargill, courts in Houston were responsible for the mistake, as he said they did not inform the National Instant Criminal Check System that Broesche had been charged with a felony. Cargill said state leaders should focus on the following of current gun laws, rather than the creation of new ones.