Posted on 06/15/2016 10:31:08 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is working with former New York mayor and vocal gun-control advocate Michael Bloomberg’s organization to attempt to come up with a measure to keep terrorists from acquiring guns.
A spokeswoman from Bloomberg’s organization, Everytown for Gun Safety, said Wednesday that the group was “working with Toomey’s office on the terror gap,” referring to a quirk in the laws that makes it legal for people on the government’s terrorist watch lists to purchase firearms.
Toomey’s office would not comment Wednesday. It’s unclear if the effort will result in the actual drafting of a bill or is a discussion that may not result in a concrete proposal.
But in the wake of the Orlando shooting, there are some signs that the tide is shifting among Republicans toward banning those on the terrorist watch list — which included some 800,000 people as of September 2014 — from purchasing firearms. The Orlando shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was on a terrorist watch list until 2014, when he was removed for not posing a credible threat.
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She wants to be the new Liz Warren. I’ll pass on her. Empty suit Casey is bad enough.
I won’t lift a finger to help Toomey either.
Solution:
Keep potential terrorists out of the county. They have one important characteristic in common...
Can anyone guess what that might be?
Fools errand. They cannot even keep guns out of the hands of terrorists in France.
How about NO GUNS SOLD TO MUSLIMS???
That won’t affect a thing. The Federal Government furnishes the muslims with their weapons and ammunition.
DON’T LET THEM IN THE COUNTRY AND THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO GET GUNS. IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTANDS???
This is so easy:
“Any Muslim potentially seen as a threat must wait 60 days before purchasing: A gun(Orlando, San Bernardino, Ft Hood), a knife(man who beheaded his co-worker), or a pressure cooker(Boston Marathon).”
This would pass in a second.
Toomey’s been on the dark side for a long time. It won’t be long before any efforts aimed at preventing Muslims from getting guns will be characterized as racist and Islamophobic.
Toomey is a despicable POS.
Goes over to the dark side????? Ha! He’s been there for a long time definitely since his love for gays in the military. And I still think you guys were wrong to support this creep over Santorum. Toomey has joined the filibuster by the way. I’ll laugh if toomey causes gun control. It would be vengeance for kicking Santorum to the curb through lies and distortions. It’s true. You weep what you sow.
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