If you are on the “Do Not Fly” list how can you possibly be allowed to buy / own a gun?
There are many people on that list who do not belong there but have names similar to ones who are supposed to be on it. Using that list for a criterion to ban ownership or purchase of a firearm would bar a lot of good citizens from gun ownership. If the list is an official criterion then a lot of other people would be put on it , perhaps whole categories just for the purpose of infringing on their RKBA. There is NO valid reason to bar anyone from buying or owning a weapon of any kind. RKBA SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. That is absolute.It is modifiable only by the involuntary servitude clause of the 13th Amd which can be construed to bar incarcerated prisoners.
We have constitutional rights to own firearms. We don’t have constitutional rights to fly on commercial airlines.
“If you are on the “Do Not Fly” list how can you possibly be allowed to buy / own a gun?”
Being on some arbitrary “list” isn’t the same as being legally adjudicated/convicted of something that strips you of any Constitutional Rights.
>> If you are on the “Do Not Fly” list how can you possibly be allowed to buy / own a gun?
Do a little googling and you will find that is because most Republicans, the NRA, and a few Democrats felt that the no fly list was not a good source to prevent gun purchases because there are law abiding citizens on the list. Obama was pushing for just such a rule but was shot down.
“If you are on the “Do Not Fly” list how can you possibly be allowed to buy / own a gun?”
You can but a gun, but the FBI is notified immediately.
Problem is that this guy was removed from the watch list, so there was no notification.