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    People on FBI terror watch list can buy guns legally in U.S.

    People on FBI terror watch list can buy guns legally in U.S.


    By Christopher Ingraham The Washington Post
    First Published Nov 16 2015 04:54PM Last Updated Nov 16 2015 08:54 pm


    Two lawmakers introduce bill to prevent purchases, but NRA objected in past.

    Washington • Given France's strict gun laws, the terrorists who attacked Paris on Friday may have turned to the black market for the weapons they used. But in the United States, known and suspected terrorists are allowed to purchase firearms under federal law.

    "Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives under current federal law," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in 2010. The law prohibits felons, fugitives, drug addicts and domestic abusers from purchasing a firearm in the United States. But people on the FBI's consolidated terrorist watch list — typically placed there when there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are a known or suspected terrorist — can freely purchase handguns or assault-style rifles.


    And, as the GAO found, a number of them do: Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from U.S. dealers at least 2,233 times. In 2,043 of those cases — 91 percent of the time — they succeeded.

    Lawmakers have tried to stop this from happening. Bills have been introduced in Congress to do just that, going as far back as 2007 at the behest of then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.


    Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., introduced a bill to do that earlier this year. The "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015" would prevent several hundred gun purchases by suspected terrorists each year, and it includes provisions to let people challenge a denial if they believe they were placed on the watch list in error.


    But these bills have rarely made it out of committee, in part due to vehement opposition from the National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress. The NRA objected to earlier versions of the bill, saying they were "aimed primarily at law-abiding American gun owners," that "prohibiting the possession of firearms doesn't stop criminals from illegally acquiring them" and that the bills were "sponsored by gun-control extremists."


    The NRA did not respond to requests for comment on whether they were similarly opposed to this year's Feinstein-King bill.


    A 2012 survey for pro-gun-control group Everytown USA found that 76 percent of American gun owners, including 71 percent of NRA members, supported prohibiting people on the terror watch list from buying guns.


    The biggest knock against the legislation is perhaps that the FBI's watch list is an imperfect tool for assessing an individual's terror threat. Civil libertarians warn that the watch list has ballooned in size to nearly 700,000 individuals in recent years. Many of those people may simply be family members, acquaintances or people only marginally acquainted with individuals who actually belong to terror groups. The NRA and its allies are worried that perfectly law-abiding people may end up on a watch list and be unable to purchase a gun.

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    GOP blocks bill to stop terrorists from buying guns


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