Posted on 09/16/2016 2:42:03 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Former Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio on Thursday highlighted a bill aimed at keeping guns away from suspected terrorists as he fights a tough reelection bid to keep his Senate seat.
The legislation, which fails to mention No Fly Lists, would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s be notified of any request to transfer a firearm to an individual who was the subject of a federal terrorism investigation within the last 10 years.
“This bill would achieve everyone’s goal of making it harder for suspected terrorists to buy guns, and do so without violating the due process and Second Amendment rights of innocent, law-abiding Americans,” Rubio said in a statement. He described the measure, the Terror Intelligence Improvement Act, as building on and improving “the best ideas that have been proposed,” so bipartisan support is more likely.
Under the proposal, the FBI would house federal intelligence investigations; require the FBI Director’s office and the Joint Terrorism Task Force be notified if a federal terror suspect attempts to buy a firearm through a licensed dealer; and allow the U.S. Attorney General to delay the transfer for three days while seeking a court order to stop it. Should the court deny the petition, the government would assume the costs and attorney fees.
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Trump cannot get Mexico to pay for the border wall fast enough.
Next, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to make policy for INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So while a federal background check on gun sales to suspected terrorists is arguably a good idea, low-information Rubio actually needs to first lead Congress to successfully propose an appropriate gun sale bill to the Constitution to the states before submitting his gun bill to Congress.
In fact, consider that in order for Congress to “breach” the Commerce Clause with respect to prohibiting intrastate sales of intoxicating liquors, Congress first successfully proposed the 18th Amendment which expressly prohibited such sales, that amendment later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
The trouble is with the axiom, that the federal government is able to rationally determine who are terrorists and who are not. It isn’t. So prohibiting guns to the enormous number of people who are *theoretically* “terrorists”, at least according to the SPLC, is just “poisonous fruit from a poisonous tree.”
“any of us who opposes what the government does could be labeled as such.”
Not just the government. The Democrat party as well. The SPLC is a major resource used by the government to determine “right wing terrorists”, and it is appalling what organizations they list.
Dr. Ben Carson (who they later removed from their list), for his “anti-LGBT views”.
The Family Research Council. (Being listed resulted in their being violently attacked.)
Those opposed to unrestricted immigration.
Those opposed to further Muslim immigration.
Those who believe in single gender restrooms.
Those who support the police against those who attack them.
Yes, lo and behold, the Deplorables will definitely be on that list.
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