NRA Wants to Make Sure Suspected Terrorist Can Still Buy AK-47’s
Writing by Marq on Friday, 4 of May , 2007 at 7:34 pm
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As far as I’m concerned the far left of American politics is dead wrong about any control. I own a gun, I might own more than one, but it’s really none of your business. And that’s my point, I am a law-abiding citizen and responsible gun owner. That being said the NRA cannot be serious with their objection of a bill that would permit the Department of Justice to deny suspected terrorists the ability to buy a gun. This week the Democratically led House of Representatives introduced a bill that would prevent the Attorney General to deny those on the terrorist watch list access to guns. Chris Cox Executive Director of the National Rifle Association said, “would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere suspicion of a terrorist threat.”
I appreciate the Second Amendment to our Constitution, and at one point in my life I even appreciated the NRA’s defense of said Second Amendment, but they are really advocating to allow suspected terrorists to mass an armory than they have truly lost a grip on reality.
From the AP
Technorati Tags: chris cox, department of justice, national rifle association, objection, responsible gun, second amendment rights, terrorists, terror suspectsThe 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.
In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., “would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere ’suspicions’ of a terrorist threat.”
As many of our friends in law enforcement have rightly pointed out, the word ’suspect’ has no legal meaning, particularly when it comes to denying constitutional liberties,” Cox wrote.
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