Posted on 06/15/2016 12:48:16 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A congressional push to ban or restrict gun sales for those on terror watch lists gained bipartisan momentum Wednesday, with everyone from key Republican lawmakers to Donald Trump to the National Rifle Association opening the door to discussing the idea.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee indicated interest in the push in a tweet Wednesday morning announcing a meeting with the NRA.
....The NRA, for its part, has walked a fine line on such proposals. On Tuesday, it tweeted that bans for people on watch lists are "ineffective, unconstitutional, or both."
Chris Cox, director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, clarified Wednesday that the NRA "believes that terrorists should not be allowed to purchase or possess firearms, period."
He said those on a watch list who try to buy a gun "should be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and the sale delayed while the investigation is ongoing." If there's evidence of terrorist activity, he said, the sale should be blocked and the suspect arrested. But he added, "At the same time, due process protections should be put in place that allow law-abiding Americans who are wrongly put on a watchlist to be removed."
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GOP passes this THEY LOSE house and senate BANK ON IT!!!!!
Chris, you ignorant slut ...
What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand? What part of "shall not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law" do you not understand?
But, if they do it, there better be a great deal of transparency, safeguards and an appeal process that forces the government into a Federal Court.
And it would STILL be Unconstitutional.
Folks WE NEED to FLOOD the phone lines, ANYONE can be put on this list!!!! WE could be put on this list for being on FR!!!! WE then have to get ourselves OFF the damned list!!!! NO WAY!!!!
“soon 300 million citizens will be on the watch list.”
Exactly.
Facts don’t matter when you are attemping to disarm those you wish to subjugate.
Form 4473 should ask as one of the disqualifying questions: Are you a Muslim, or do you practice the Muslim faith?
The GOP-e allowed Obama and the DIMS to completely reframe the facts—Now Christians and legal gun owners are to blame for the murders in Orlando.
As such, they will pass anything that comes down the pike in an effort to curry favor with the Left, and will then be surprised the next time the Left shits on them.
Meanwhile, conservatives, having had enough, will stay home in droves.
That was the ESSENCE of the Heller decision so roundly celebrated.
"Reasonable Restriction" is allowed.
I wonder how many people were put on the list 10 years ago for saying what Trump says today?
NRA members, anyone registered to vote as a Republican, anyone who has or is serving in the military, anyone who shows a contribution to a Christian, Catholic church or Jewish organization on their tax return, anyone whose children attend a private school associated with the Christian or Catholic church or Jewish organization, anyone who logs onto conservative websites or expresses a negative comment against the current administration, anyone who receives money from SS to cover retirement benefits, anyone who is registered as a small business owner, etc.
AND PRESIDENCY!
Let’s Insert More Government Incompetence! bump for later...
They have been corrupted by political correctness. They determined that Mateen was only saying threatening things because people were saying mean things about him.
That includes Trump since he supports it. Now what?
Oh now they want to disarm us after Obama let almost 1,000,000 radical Islam Muslims into our country? The enemy is already here ... He’s crazy if he things Americans are going to fork over their guns at the drop of a hat....or anytime soon!! Hell no!!!! come and take it!!!!
....And in full revolt mode.
I thought Trump was a true leader. Are you trying to tell me that he isn’t able to clearly articulate the issue? And to boot, Trump is supporting the change. If Trump gets elected in November, I predict his honeymoon on FR will last 3 hours.
The tail is wagging the dog
Either way I am never voting for another Republican for congress again ..Trump will be my last and only Republican I’ll ever cast a vote for from here on!!
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