Sentences with phrase «on terror watch lists»
Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Thursday he intends to prohibit anyone on the terror watch lists from buying a gun.
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The senator also pledged to continue his legislative push to enable the Department of Justice to prevent those on the terror watch lists from purchasing firearms or explosives.
Murphy says Congress should also pass legislation to prevent people on the terror watch lists from purchasing guns.
Indeed, federal law allows people on terror watch lists to purchase guns, and thousands of them have done so.
De Blasio penned a letter to congressional GOP leaders, asking House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back a bill that would prohibit people on terror watch lists, which bar them from boarding airplanes, from buying firearms.
In fact, since background checks have included people on the terror watch list, people on the list that attempted to by guns 2,477 different times.
On the heels of the deadliest mass shooting in American history, a new report released by the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein reveals disturbing data about how easy it is for individuals on the terror watch list to purchase firearms.
According to the report, last year people on the terror watch list attempted to buy guns on 244 occasions — 223 were «allowed to proceed.»
The latest (but not recent) episode I remember is this vote from June 2016, when the US senate rejected restrictions on sale of weapons to people on the terror watch list.
There also are no examples of someone being on the terror watch list and buying guns that were later used in a shooting.
Are people on a terror watch list or judged to have mental health issues, denied the ability to purchase or drive a vehicle?
The issue becomes contentious due to the criteria used to put people on a terror watch list, or declare them to have mental health problems.
Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.
Notably, in 2010, the ACLU testified against «the use of terror watch lists to screen gun purchases,» writing that the «deeply flawed» terror watch list process led the group to conclude, «Given these problems, we do not believe that anyone should be deprived of the right to purchase a gun, or the right to fly, or any other benefit of membership in civil society based solely on placement on a terror watch list.»
Top New York officials are asking the federal government to help the state to block people on the terror watch list from legal gun purchases.
Sen. Charles Schumer and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the federal government does not currently give states access to classified background information about suspects on its terror watch list.
New York Democratic Congresswoman Nita Lowey is calling on the House to pass legislation prohibiting suspects on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.
A measure that she is cosponsoring would give the attorney general the authority to block suspects on the terror watch list from buying guns.
«If you're on the terror watch list and you can't get on a plane, you shouldn't be able to purchase an assault rifle legally in this country,» Higgins said.
Even with a court warrant, only individuals convicted of a violent or major crime within the past five years, or those on a terror watch list, would be handed over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The FBI said it conducted a 10 - month investigation into the suspected Orlando gunman, Omar Mateen, but found no reason to keep him on the terror watch list.
Anyone on a terror watch list who tries to buy a gun should be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and the sale delayed while the investigation is ongoing.»
If Orlando shooter was on a terror watch list, this Senate vote from Dec is going to get a lot of attention: https://t.co/yVE7l6jpHU
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GAO said from February 2004, when the background check system began checking the terror watch list, through 2015, 2,477 names of would - be gun and explosives buyers were on the watch list.
In his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee this morning following the arrest of the Times Square bomb plot suspect, Mayor Bloomberg is urging lawmakers to close the so - called «terror gap» to give the FBI the power to block the sale of guns and explosives to people on watch lists.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced he intends to issue an executive order prohibiting anyone on the federal government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm in the state — assuming state officials are allowed access to those lists.
Amid failure of federal legislation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday again called for federal action that would ban gun sales to those on terror or no - fly watch lists.
On Thursday, Malloy's administration was said to be working with the federal government to gain access to the federal terror watch lists.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said on Wednesday that he intends to block anyone on the government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats in Congress vowed Wednesday to renew efforts to pass a bill that would ban sales of guns and explosives to suspected terrorists on the nation's terror watch list.
«The adventure has involved over 70 + countries (view the list here) on 6 continents, work as a Tour Manager on board cruise ships, two years in India, experiments with meditation, muse - creation, mountain - climbing and movie acting, volunteer work, an inappropriate amount of time on tropical islands and eating inappropriate amounts of street food, a two - day kidnapping, being placed on the US «terror watch list», teaching English in Asia and a fruitless search for a pair of sandals with sufficient arch-support for my flat feet, among others.»
Shapiro noted Mandela was included on the United States» terror watch list until 2008.