Allowing people on terrorist lists to buy weapons is ludicrous and those of you who support that are nuts.
Nobody supports actual terrorists being able to buy weapons.
According to the article you linked to, 1) the current FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System notifies the proper authorities if someone on a watch list applies for a gun permit, and 2) the watch list contains not only the names of true terrorism suspects and their associates, but their relatives, neighbors or co-workers as well.
From the email alert Carry_Okie posted:
"Called the "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007," this legislation would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the purchase of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm license or permit because of some vague suspicion that an American citizen may be up to no good.
"This bill," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, "raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a ‘suspected terrorist.’ Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one’s name off such a list.
"The process by which someone may appeal the Attorney General’s arbitrary denial seems weak at best," Gottlieb suggested, "and there is a greater concern. When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone’s constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?
Do you believe that law-abiding U.S. citizens should be put on a terrorist watch list and possibly be denied the right to purchase a firearm just because they happen to be a neighbor or co-worker of a true terrorism suspect? Bill S. 1237 would give the AG the power to do that. Do you support that?
Do you believe that law-abiding U.S. citizens can never be falsely accused and put on a suspected terrorist list by any government official who has an agenda or axe to grind? If so, I recommend you read Constitutional Chaos by Judge Andrew Napolitano, espeically the chapters that describe how former Attorney General Janet Reno used her power to destroy the lives of law-abiding citizens, denying them their constitutional rights based on bogus charges.
Food for thought:
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence."
--Charles A. Beard, Historian (1874-1948)
The fact that you base your whole argument on some email reveals its superficiality.
In fact, the bill - The “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007” — would give the attorney general discretionary authority to deny the purchase of firearms (or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses) to “known or suspected terrorists.”
Notice the phrase “known or suspected terrorists”
You may not think we are at war but in fact it is here.
BTTT