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Lawmakers Angry FBI Cannot Check Gun Records
Reuters ^
| 12-6-01
| JOANNE KENEN
Posted on 12/06/2001 10:45:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday that the FBI cannot have access to gun purchase records as part of its terrorism probe, an assertion that provoked anger from several of his critics in Congress.
Several lawmakers also criticized gun makers who they said were trying to exploit the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. One manufacturer, for instance, is marketing on its Web site a .50-caliber weapon nicknamed the ``Turban Chaser.''
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist
I believe this is a biased article likely written before Ashcroft's testimony. While not watching the entire hearing, I recall that when asked about gun checks on suspects in custody the AG said the legislation limited access to records and he would be happy to review a change in the law (written by the gun grabbers asking the questions like Schuemer, Kennedy, etc.).
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The "turban-chaser"!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
A real Turban Buster
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The "Turban chaser" ... Yeah...
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I thought these records were not supposed to exist.
I thought they were supposed to be purged after being used for the background check.
Is there any statutory authority for this database?
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posted on
12/06/2001 11:00:01 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
To: Jim Noble
That's what Ashcroft kept telling them: 90 days and they're gone, and the statute says the APPROVED records can only be used only for statistics, not for investigative activity. He basically said, "We're following your law, change it if you don't like it."
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posted on
12/06/2001 11:10:08 AM PST
by
angkor
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The headline should read: "Communist lawmakers, etc., etc.,etc."
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posted on
12/06/2001 11:10:59 AM PST
by
45Auto
To: Oldeconomybuyer; *bang_list
bump
To: angkor
He basically said, "We're following your law, change it if you don't like it." Of course Orrin Hatch immediately followed that statement of Ashcroft with his own to Feingold (who was parroting Kennedy and Feinstein) reminding him (and them)that by making those provisions clear was the only way the law could have passed at all!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Predictable bleatings from the usual cast of characters, a pair of New York Dems who have never met an anti-gun bill they didn't salivate over. Remember this incident next time some antigunner says that the potentially harmful law he or she is proposing would never, never be abused.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bravo for Ashcroft. The antigunners are attempting to set precedent.
To: Lazamataz
Kudos to Ashcroft - I agree. It's a sad day when Dims consider library records sancrosanct and inviolate - even when the persons in question were the 9/11 terrorists. Yet Dims continue to villify those that uphold the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, that their records are not deemed to be worthy of the same protection.
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posted on
12/06/2001 11:31:16 AM PST
by
4CJ
To: Oldeconomybuyer
As if any foreign terrorists would waste their time trying to get a weapon in the U.S. when they are so cheap and plentiful throughout the middle east.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
There's no need for the FBI to know if suspected terrorists have acquired guns and such acquisition resulted in fedl background checks. The FBI must ASSUME that suspected terrorists have guns until they know different.
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posted on
12/06/2001 7:37:19 PM PST
by
naturman
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