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'No Fly, No Buy' for Guns Bill Proposed by Rep. McCarthy
Nassau News ^ | 13 May, 2009 | Timothy Robertson

Posted on 05/17/2009 6:53:04 AM PDT by marktwain

'No Fly, No Buy' for Guns Bill Proposed by Rep. McCarthy

User Rating: / 19 PoorBest Politics - Capitol Hill Written by Timothy Robertson Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:32

Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) is co-sponsoring a House of Representatives bill preventing people on the government's no-fly list from purchasing guns.

House representatives will introcude a bill Wednesday that would ban anyone on the controversial no-fly list from purchasing a gun in the U.S.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), a strong gun control advocate, is co-sponsoring the legislation that would apply to the nearly 1 million people that make up the government’s no-fly list – people believed to either be terrorist or have strong terrorism connections.

Currently the no-fly list is not a part of the background check for buying guns.

A Zogby International Poll last month found that 69 percent of 3,967 registered American voters only supported a move to prohibit people on the no-fly list from buying a weapon if they have previously been convicted of a crime. On the other hand, 20 percent said anyone on the list should be prohibited.

The no-fly list has received criticism in the past for stopping people with similar names to those on the list from flying.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bitterwhiteguy; bohica; clinger; colddeadhands; donttreadonme; givemeliberty; govisperfectright; gun; hellno; jointhenra; livefreeordie; mccarthy; nranow; ny; takebackamerica; treeofliberty; wakeupamerica; wethepeople
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Hmmm... 1. Define the Conservative base as terrorists.

2. Remove "terrorists" rights by not allowing them to fly or buy guns.

3. ???

I do not think this legislation has much chance right now, but a number of far left organizations and legislators seem to think it is a good idea.

1 posted on 05/17/2009 6:53:05 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

You are putting the pieces together.

Liberalism is not always transparent.


2 posted on 05/17/2009 6:55:53 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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as of now, they don't even have to tell you why you are on the list...
3 posted on 05/17/2009 6:56:34 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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I presume that they would have a special exemption for teddy kennedy?


4 posted on 05/17/2009 6:58:14 AM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: marktwain

What she really wants is to ban everyone who flies in an airplane from owning a gun.


5 posted on 05/17/2009 7:00:05 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: marktwain

Presumably, McCarthy doesn’t have to worry about a “no fly” ban as her broom quietly waits in the corner ...


6 posted on 05/17/2009 7:06:23 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: rockrr

Teddy doesn’t need a gun, as long as he’s got a car.


7 posted on 05/17/2009 7:10:11 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: marktwain
This is a BS idea. The list is ostensibly arbitrary. Denied rights without due process.
8 posted on 05/17/2009 7:23:09 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
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With Zero and his staff pushing it, it might get done with an executive order.

Check out the video directly related to the subject!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vp7f1QKYmg

9 posted on 05/17/2009 7:27:35 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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I guess they found the clause “shall not be infringed, unless one is on a list created by incompetent people in a department yet to be created”


10 posted on 05/17/2009 7:29:12 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: marktwain

My congressional representative, who doesn’t even have a clue where her hometown is anymore, never met a water pistol that she didn’t want banned.


11 posted on 05/17/2009 7:58:44 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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created by incompetent people in a department

They can use the Social Security computers. That data base is pristine.

12 posted on 05/17/2009 7:59:22 AM PDT by highpockets
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To: reg45

If that’s the case then she’s going about it in a most indirect way, banning guns from those NOT able to fly first.


13 posted on 05/17/2009 7:59:25 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: marktwain

You can bet your bottom dollar that this is something snakey repackaged in the form of this bill. If this bill is read in its entirety, you can bet that it has hidden bombs in it. Hopefully, those bombs will be discovered and this bill killed.

If these people are on a no fly list, then why are they not rounded up and deported in the first place?


14 posted on 05/17/2009 8:11:53 AM PDT by Concho ( No Birth Certificate-No Census!)
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Because a lot of the people on the no-fly list are probably there through questionable profiling?


15 posted on 05/17/2009 8:13:35 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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So we’ll be allowed to profile gun owners but not Muslims! Sounds just like an idea from the looney, gun-grabbing left! Oh, wait...


16 posted on 05/17/2009 8:19:16 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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A Zogby International Poll last month found that 69 percent of 3,967 registered American voters only supported a move to prohibit people on the no-fly list from buying a weapon if they have previously been convicted of a crime. On the other hand, 20 percent said anyone on the list should be prohibited.

Once you start infringing, there will never be a firm endpoint.

America -- a great idea, didn't last.

17 posted on 05/17/2009 8:27:52 AM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters | America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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To: hoosierham

You are correct, and also right. Maybe it is time to round up the profilers and deport them to their favorite socialist country. We just get closer, every day, to armed revolution.


18 posted on 05/17/2009 8:45:48 AM PDT by Concho ( No Birth Certificate-No Census!)
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Oh, good plan. Expand the erroneous and ambiguous list compiled by incompetents so that it can injure more people in more fundamental ways than it did before. Your tax dollars at “work”.


19 posted on 05/17/2009 9:01:44 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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The list is ostensibly arbitrary

For this reason some on the left have opposed the "No Fly" list.

Now the same people want to use it to prevent a person from buying a gun?

20 posted on 05/17/2009 10:04:05 AM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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