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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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To: onyx

It is up to us to not let them play us in this crisis.


21 posted on 04/21/2013 9:44:59 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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To: Nachum

22 posted on 04/21/2013 9:47:39 PM PDT by South40 (I Love The "New & Improved" Free Republic!)
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To: Nachum

No way! So in addition to making pressure cooker bombs filled with shrapnel to kill children and others, THEY CHOSE TO BREAK A GUN LAW???


23 posted on 04/21/2013 9:50:16 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Nachum

This reporter did not ask these questions:

What if the FBI had booted them out of the country when they interviewed them?

What if we simply automatically deported anyone with a green card that breaks the law?

What if we never allowed visas for anyone known to come from a country that sponsors terroism or is a breeding ground for them?

What if there had been a ban on pressure cookers?


24 posted on 04/21/2013 9:52:04 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: vpintheak

Exactly. The stupid LIBS want to take guns away from law abiding citizens while the criminals and thugs will always have them.


25 posted on 04/21/2013 9:56:09 PM PDT by Lumper20 (`)
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To: umgud

I guess the ultimate question here is are liberals this stupid or do they think the public is this stupid or both?


26 posted on 04/21/2013 10:06:48 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Nachum

So how did they get their firearms ? Should that not be issue number 1 ?


27 posted on 04/21/2013 10:10:04 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Anyone notice there seems to be a blackout on news as to what type of firearms they used ?

Probably stamped For Government Use Only. Actually, my guess is the phony guns never got planted on them.

28 posted on 04/21/2013 10:12:46 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: FlyingEagle
I am shocked, shocked, I tell you.

In an unusual development, a murderous terrorist did not possess a license to carry a firearm. Wow! Color me shocked too!

29 posted on 04/21/2013 10:14:54 PM PDT by BAW (We are the Resistance.)
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To: mylife

You’re right.


30 posted on 04/21/2013 10:17:48 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: umgud

“The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws –”

What’s wrong with the above sentence?


31 posted on 04/21/2013 10:21:22 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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To: Georgia Girl 2

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

Don’t give them any more great ideas.


32 posted on 04/21/2013 10:23:37 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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To: Nachum

They were also not authorized to have/use bombs or IED’s.


33 posted on 04/21/2013 10:24:08 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Steel Wolf

>weren’t the vast,overwhelming majority of the deaths and injuries here inflicted by kitchenware?<

When pressure cookers are outlawed only criminals......... Oh, nevermind


34 posted on 04/21/2013 10:27:07 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Nachum

“Massachusetts has strong gun laws that help combat the illegal gun market, prevent the sale of most guns without background checks and reduce risks to children according to the Brady Campaign.

In the organization’s 2011 state scorecards released for all 50 states, Massachusetts earned 65 points out of a total of 100.”


35 posted on 04/21/2013 10:27:58 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: FlyingEagle

In a 2nd-amendment respecting society they would not be busted on the guns per se, but for using them for a criminal purpose. So I am conflicted on “throw the book at them for that.”


36 posted on 04/21/2013 10:29:38 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ELS; ...

ping


37 posted on 04/21/2013 10:50:52 PM PDT by nutmeg (Rest in Peace, FReeper Extraordinaire Doctor Raoul...)
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To: Jeff Winston

According to Brady Campaign, Massachusetts has the third “best” gun laws in the nation.

A 200-round firefight is the biggest I’ve ever heard of.

Glad to know Massachusetts has such good gun laws. Undoubtedly, if it hadn’t been for those strong gun laws, this these thugs might have terrorized a whole city.


38 posted on 04/21/2013 11:01:18 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Jeff Winston
A 200-round firefight is the biggest I’ve ever heard of.

My guess is that 190+ of those were from the cops.

39 posted on 04/21/2013 11:22:57 PM PDT by jim-x (9/11/2001 - Never forget, Never forgive.)
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To: Nachum

Aw, fer cryin’ out loud...who the heck writes these “duh” stories?


40 posted on 04/21/2013 11:26:51 PM PDT by Pzorkit
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