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Report: Boston attack suspects not licensed to own firearms
The Hill ^ | 4/21/13 | Mike Lillis

Posted on 04/21/2013 9:21:09 PM PDT by Nachum

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.

The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of President Obama's gun-control package.

Police say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, went on a deadly shooting spree Thursday and Friday, killing a university policeman before confronting local officers in a wild firefight in the middle of a Watertown, Mass., street that left the elder brother dead and a transit policeman injured.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attack; banglist; boston; bostonbombersguns; democrats; guncontrol; licensed; nonewgunlaws; secondamendment; suspects
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1 posted on 04/21/2013 9:21:09 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I am shocked, shocked, I tell you.


2 posted on 04/21/2013 9:22:09 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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What!? You mean that these gun control measures will only serve to control law a using citizens? Criminals break laws? I’m amazed!


3 posted on 04/21/2013 9:25:49 PM PDT by vpintheak (Occupy your Mind!)
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The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws –

Yes, add more laws to make double sure they couldn't get firearms.

4 posted on 04/21/2013 9:28:15 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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To: Nachum

wow quell surprise


5 posted on 04/21/2013 9:29:02 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nachum

Yes, we obviously need more gun control if even terrorists can aquire weapons inside one of the most restrictive states in the country! Sheesh. Turn in your guns Alaska!!!


6 posted on 04/21/2013 9:29:03 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Nachum
will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws

Because when laws don't work, clearly we need more.

7 posted on 04/21/2013 9:29:15 PM PDT by mykroar (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine)
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To: Nachum

So I guess we need to expand the universal background check to private sales to terrorists. :-)


8 posted on 04/21/2013 9:29:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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If we ban guns, only criminals will... oh, never mind.


9 posted on 04/21/2013 9:30:09 PM PDT by bgill
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If the bombers got guns illegally, it is grounds to argue why we don t want tougher gun laws. It would make it even harder for law abiding citizens to get one for self protection while criminals have the means to get one off the street. US needs tougher immigration laws to make it harder for terrorists or people from countries with religious values and political viewpoints that can make them into terrorists or spies. That means the US should allow less Chinese, Russians, Arab Muslims, and Muslims in general from entering as immigrants into US.


10 posted on 04/21/2013 9:30:42 PM PDT by Fee (9/11 first shaking; 2008 finance collapse second shaking; 2015 ????)
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11 posted on 04/21/2013 9:34:45 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Nachum

They broke the law!!??


12 posted on 04/21/2013 9:36:06 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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Newsflash: Making bombs is against the law... We need new tougher laws against making bombs...

Nothing ever seems to stop the liberal agenda, even when reality appears and starts shooting.


13 posted on 04/21/2013 9:37:34 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: onyx

Brilliant!


14 posted on 04/21/2013 9:38:12 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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LOL.


15 posted on 04/21/2013 9:38:47 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave ofo attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Nachum

Anyone notice there seems to be a blackout on news as to what type of firearms they used?

Normally if such a shootout happens the media would be full of photos of the weapons used with lots of calls for more bans on them.


16 posted on 04/21/2013 9:40:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
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Just to point something out, here, but weren’t the vast, overwhelming majority of the deaths and injuries here inflicted by kitchenware?


17 posted on 04/21/2013 9:42:02 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: GlockThe Vote; mylife

Government is entirely inept.
Takes a terrorist attack to prove it.


18 posted on 04/21/2013 9:42:03 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Nachum

How about crockpots. Were they licensed there???


19 posted on 04/21/2013 9:43:31 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Obviously the only ones in this matter with AR15’s and M16’s were the cops.


20 posted on 04/21/2013 9:44:11 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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