Posted on 04/28/2011 1:20:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
247 On U.S. Terror Watch List Bought Guns In 2010
By JASON RYAN April 28, 2011
More than 200 individuals who were on the federal terrorism watch list passed background checks and were allowed to buy guns in 2010, according to a new government review.
A review by the Government Accountability Office determined that 247 people on the watch list bought guns last year, and also showed that between 2004 and 2009, more than nine out of ten individuals on the list who tried to buy guns succeeded.
"It defies common sense," said Sen. Lautenberg, D.-New Jersey, who requested the GAO report, "that people on the terror watch list continue to be cleared to buy weapons legally in the United States."
Current federal law does not prohibit people on the terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns unless there is a prohibiting factor, such as being a fugitive, a felon, renouncing U.S. citizenship or suffering mental impairment. Sen. Lautenberg has introduced legislation that would close this loophole and prevent known or suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.
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bump!
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
I would sooner arm those on “the terror watch list” than I ever would the lowlife dems.
Terror wacth list is not a conviction so you can not restrict their rights.
It’s funny. Libs are always screaming about the rights of the accused. What about the rights of those who have not have even been accused? It’s a proven and know fact that the terrorist watch list is a joke. Are the Tyranical Left saying that our Constitutionaly protected rights are subject to prior restraint?
Does that include Constitutional terrorists? I’d have thought the number to have been much higher.
“Current federal law does not prohibit people on the terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns unless there is a prohibiting factor, such as being a fugitive, a felon, renouncing U.S. citizenship or suffering mental impairment. Sen. Lautenberg has introduced legislation that would close this loophole and prevent known or suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.”
That couldn’t possibly be abused to disarm patriotic Americans who disagree with the administration. No way. /sarc
So? You can be on the list with no trial, no indictment, no court order, no reasonable cause. Rights don’t just disappear because the government arbitrarily put you on some list.
“So? You can be on the list with no trial, no indictment, no court order, no reasonable cause. Rights don’t just disappear because the government arbitrarily put you on some list.”
That’s what life in the land of the free looks like these days.
Big deal. Esp. considering that apparently you can get on ‘the list’ for just having the wrong name.
IF there isn’t enough evidence to arrest them, then there isn’t enough evidence to keep them from buying a gun.
Um. Not so sure this is the thread to bring up the “do you want to be on the list” thing! ;)
Perhaps there's just a problem with the list. FRANK
“........Are the Tyranical Left saying that our Constitutionaly protected rights are subject to prior restraint?”
These ARE the same people that put in place mind reading legislation that determine what a person was thinking while, or prior to perpetrating a crime as a guideline for sentencing, so I wouldn’t put it past them.
The loophole here is that A-holes like Lautenberg are permitted to know that intelligence lists even exist. The last thing America needs is for one’s inclusion on a “secret government list” to be grounds to restrict their rights. If there is actionable intelligence, then it should be acted on. However, it appears that they simply want to regulate away the rights of anyone they don’t agree with. The odor is overwhelming and the timidity of the GOP is deafening.
more propaganda intended to support a system where your name will get electronically flashed to Big Sis’ desk whenever you go to buy a gun. (especially true when THEY control who is on the Terror Watch List)
Must have had phony Hawaiian birth certificates.
Of course, it’s up to Big Sis to say who should be on the watch list. Doesn’t THAT sound like fun!!! A big 2nd amendment supporter—you’re a presumptive DOMESTIC TERRORIST, don’t you know!!! I’ll guarantee the left would abuse the HELL out of its power to prevent the right to keep and bear arms under this terror watch list nonsense.
It certainly “defies common sense” (and legal sense, too ), the Senator holds office at all......Since he got put on the ballot in contravention of NJ election law.....
Recall the Senator was the author of the Lautenberg Law which retroactively upgraded old misdemeanor convictions to felonies with disasterous impact upon affected individuals numbering in the thousands ! Now he’s planning on disenfranchising unknown thousands more (no one knows who/how many are on “secret government list(s)”), sans any adjudication. But, the Senator’s paranoia consistently runs that way .... >PS
How many were through the ATF’s Gunwalker program?
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