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http://www.newsday.com/ny-nyterror0430,0,4668555.story
"FBI data: Suspects on terrorist list buying guns
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:29 PM EDT, April 29, 2009
FBI data shows that suspects on the watch list for terrorists and violent gang members make hundreds of gun purchases every year that are totally legal.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group on Wednesday highlighted the little-noticed figure that was included in an FBI report released last weekend.
The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System Operations report said there were 230 legal purchases in 2006 by people on the watch list. There were 220 such purchases in 2005.
Under existing federal gun law, those buys are legal. Being on the watch list is not among the nine factors that disqualify someone from purchasing a gun -- like a felony conviction.
Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is lobbying to close that loophole."
Here's the blurb from Bloomberg's group:
http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/media-center/pr002-09.shtml
Basically, what will happen here is that they'll press for the entire No-Fly list to be added to the NICS database.
This will prevent anyone whose name is on that list (even if it's just a "generic" name; on there by "mistake"; on there due to something toally UN-related to "terrorism") from being able to pass the NICS check without a long delay.
Or, it will prevent them from purchasing a gun, period.
Stand by for further details - and be mentally-prepared to act on this one when we get a confirmed "target' to hit.
The original No Fly, No Buy bill was introduced by Se. Carolyn McCarthy in 2005: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-h20050419-48 Pete
http://www.alarmandmuster.com/Home.html
http://www.newsday.com/ny-nyterror0430,0,4668555.story
"FBI data: Suspects on terrorist list buying guns
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:29 PM EDT, April 29, 2009
FBI data shows that suspects on the watch list for terrorists and violent gang members make hundreds of gun purchases every year that are totally legal.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group on Wednesday highlighted the little-noticed figure that was included in an FBI report released last weekend.
The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System Operations report said there were 230 legal purchases in 2006 by people on the watch list. There were 220 such purchases in 2005.
Under existing federal gun law, those buys are legal. Being on the watch list is not among the nine factors that disqualify someone from purchasing a gun -- like a felony conviction.
Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is lobbying to close that loophole."
Here's the blurb from Bloomberg's group:
http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/media-center/pr002-09.shtml
Basically, what will happen here is that they'll press for the entire No-Fly list to be added to the NICS database.
This will prevent anyone whose name is on that list (even if it's just a "generic" name; on there by "mistake"; on there due to something toally UN-related to "terrorism") from being able to pass the NICS check without a long delay.
Or, it will prevent them from purchasing a gun, period.
Stand by for further details - and be mentally-prepared to act on this one when we get a confirmed "target' to hit.
The original No Fly, No Buy bill was introduced by Se. Carolyn McCarthy in 2005: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-h20050419-48 Pete
http://www.alarmandmuster.com/Home.html