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    Gaps in California arrest data make it easier for violent felons to get guns, study finds

    by Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times Apr 23, 2019 3 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Before authorities charged Anton Lemon Paris last year with murder and attempted murder in the shooting of a Rancho Cordova sheriff's deputy and his partner, the most serious offense on his rap sheet had been a 2010 conviction for the possession of homemade nunchucks.

    Such possession is a felony in California, and a Yolo County jury further enhanced the crime, finding he also had with him a firearm and an assault weapon. But Paris was able to later obtain the gun used in the Rancho Cordova shooting because state authorities

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