DOJ overrules FBI on gun sales debate, says no-fly list can be used for ban

Washingtontimes.com ^ | 6-16-2016 | Stephen Dinan

[servo1969]

Attorney General Loretta Lynch overruled FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday, saying the Obama administration does support a ban on firearms sales to those on terrorist watch lists.

Mr. Comey last year had told Congress that the ban could end up alerting suspected terrorists that they are being investigated, and that could “blow” the cases his agents are trying to build.

But his superiors at the Justice Department rejected that, issuing a statement Thursday saying they want to see Congress approve the “no-fly, no-buy” plan Democrats are pursuing.

“The amendment gives the Justice Department an important additional tool to prevent the sale of guns to suspected terrorists by licensed firearms dealers while ensuring protection of the department’s operational and investigative sensitivities,” department spokesman Dena Iverson said in a statement.

The statement didn’t explain why officials disagreed with Mr. Comey’s evaluation.

[Carry me back]

We either defeat this govt. Or they will destroy America. We defeat them with all means possible.

[TigersEye]

That’s the bottom line of it.

[TigersEye]

Due process of law means your case has to be adjudicated in a court before any sanctions on your natural rights are applied. A bureaucrat putting you on any list doesn’t rise to that standard.

[NYRepublican72]

I support adding the No Fly List AND the Terrorist Watch list to the background check IF there is an appeal process codified in law. It is too easy for a rogue administration to use the lists as currently construed to disarm innocent (read that patriot) civilians to circumvent ones Constitutional Rights. We cannot let the No Fly list become a defact “enemies” list for Øbama.

No appeals process would be fast enough to overturn what is an infringement of a Constitutional right. You shouldn't have to litigate for years over your 2nd Amendment right to purchase a handgun, just because the government put you on a list because you either do not like the government, failed to pay your taxes or they are too incompetent to list the right bad guy. It's way too open for abuse.