More than 2,000 people on terror watch list have legally purchased guns in the last 10 years

Salon ^ | Nov 18 | Sophia Tesfaye

[the_daug]

Well, wouldn’t you know it? “Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives under current federal law,” according to the Government Accountability Office and now a report from the federal agency finds that over 2,000 individuals on the FBI’s terrorist watch list have indeed successfully and legally purchased a firearm from 2004 to 2014.

Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from American dealers at least 2,233 times. And in 2,043 of those cases — 91 percent of the time — they succeeded. There are about 700,000 people on the watch-list — a point that civil libertarians have made to underscore that many on the list may be family members or acquaintances of people with potential terrorist connections.

[dangerdoc]

The funny thing about terror watch lists nowadays, you could end up on one for being republican, Christian and prior military. Considering the source is Salon, I’m thinking they may be raising a false flag.

[Jack Hammer]

Trouble is, Obama’s FBI includes on its Terrorist Watch List the entire Republican Party.

[trebb]

- I’m willing to bet a lot of them are non-muslims that are being placed on this watch list. Obama consider tea partiers as terrorists

Thank you for saying what I was thinking.

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