He thought they were there.  That is the point.
All obfuscation. 
If he was not allowed to purchase a military style weapon ( and the Air Force now admits they failed to report his domestic abuse) this would likely not have happened with the carnage that it produced.

"Denying something this obvious places your manner of thinking regarding Christians more in line with Kelley's than mainstream thought. "  An utterly moronic assertion, making assumptions based on nothing but your blind ideology.