The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.
"Right now law enforcement carefully monitors all firearms sales to those on the terror watch list," said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. "Injecting the attorney general into the process just politicizes it."
However, a 2005 study by the
Government Accountability Office found that 35 of 44 firearm purchase attempts over a five-month period made by known or suspected terrorists were approved by the federal law enforcement officials.
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The ACLU doen’t want profiling of any kind, so they should support this.
No, there are too many bogus freedom-restricting laws passed under the guise of "fighting terrorism."
To call the NRA unpatriotic for opposing this legal charade is like calling liberals unpatriotic for opposing warrantless searches or wiretapping.
Note that they’re SUSPECTED terrorists. Meaning someone THINKS they MIGHT be.
Whatever happened to "innocent until PROVEN guilty"?
I don’t think patrotism or conservatism are really playing a role in all of this. The NRA wants to limit restrictions on the sales of guns because the NRA does what is in the best interest of gun manufacturers. It is a crafty organizational design. The goal is to sell guns and keep the profits up. It is convenient to point to any restrictions on sales as an assault on your civil rights. It takes the argument away from any real issues about the need to own firearms.
Let’s make it legal for everyone to own a rifle. You can protect your home and property with a rifle. Then, let’s restrict the hell out of all other firearm purchases. Let the Attorney General, or any other legitimate legal officer rule on additional purchases of weaponry.
If a gun makes you feel safe, fine, buy a rifle. Other than that, let’s scale back the production of firearms. Let the suspected terrorists buy one rifle each.
Alexandra Says: Note that they’re SUSPECTED terrorists. Meaning someone THINKS they MIGHT be.
Whatever happened to “innocent until PROVEN guilty”?
Alexandra is right. So when a suspected murderer is caught and put in prison he should have the right to have a firearm. He isn’t guilty. He’s just suspected of being guilty. He still has the right to own a firearm. Just because he can’t afford to post bail doesn’t mean he shouldn’t enjoy all the rights of a suspect who CAN posts bail…like buying a gun.
In fact he should be allowed to possess a firearm in prison all the way up and until he is found guilty…if they find him guilty at all.