Sentences with phrase «terror watch list»

Indeed, federal law allows people on terror watch lists to purchase guns, and thousands of them have done so.
Esty urged her colleagues to vote on legislation to stop individuals on federal terror watch lists from purchasing firearms.
Their cries fall just shy of what Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy pledged to do last week when he signed an executive order that would bar the sale of firearms to anyone on federal terror watch lists in his state.
The Democrats said at a lower Manhattan news conference with the Statue of Liberty in the backdrop that their preference is that the federal government add terror watch lists to the criteria used in background checks, but congressional efforts to mandate the cross-check have met pushback from gun advocates.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday that states should have access to federal no - fly and other terror watch lists in order to screen potential gun buyers.
Opponents of the Democrats» bill to close the so - called «terror gap» argue that the broad terror watch list can wrongly ensnare people who are not terrorists.
Shapiro noted Mandela was included on the United States» terror watch list until 2008.
Later, when asked about 54 U.S. senators voting against a bill late last year banning people on a federal terror watch list from buying firearms, Bratton said, «shame on them.
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.
On Thursday, Malloy's administration was said to be working with the federal government to gain access to the federal terror watch lists.
He and fellow Democrat Cuomo said their first preference is that the federal government add terror watch lists to the criteria used in background checks, but gun advocates have pushed back on recent efforts in Congress to mandate such cross-checks.
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 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.
That means 91 percent of time, people on the terror watch list could by guns.
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.»
Every so called candidate has had to go before them and pass a litmous test and now their hypocrasy is in full view now that Mormonism has been removed from their terror watch list.
This proposal would be less controversial if the terror watch list and the no - fly list were well defined processes with substantive due process.
Specifically to the example you provide: there is no due process in the maintenance of a terror watch list.
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?
On the surface, those seem like common sense restrictions: no one on a terror watch list should be allowed to own a gun legally.
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.
In fact, in 2013 and 2014, the number of successful gun buyers from the terror watch list rose to 94 percent — with 455 suspects purchasing firearms and just 30 being denied.
Not a single gun buyer on the terror watch list was turned away because they posed a threat to America as a suspected terrorist.
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.»
Schumer says 94 percent of the individuals on the terror watch list cleared background checks during gun transactions in 2013 and 2014.
He says 2,000 people on the terror watch list have purchased guns in the US, and blames the National Rifle Association for blocking the measure in the past.
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.
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.
The joint request follows a week in which a federal bill that would ban gun sales to those on the terror watch list failed to pass muster yet again in the Republican - controlled Senate.
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.
Murphy says Congress should also pass legislation to prevent people on the terror watch lists from purchasing 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.
Cuomo and Schumer said civil liberties should still be protected and mistakes made by the federal government in compiling the terror watch lists do not mean they shouldn't be used.
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.
Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Thursday he intends to prohibit anyone on the terror watch lists from buying a gun.
Amid epithets — invective such as «liar,» «millionaire» (Heaney) and the dreaded tag of «lobbyist» (Faso)-- the two hew to the standard of the right, brandishing National Rifle Association credentials (though, post-Orlando, both have said they would support a gun ban for people on terror watch lists), seeking repeal and replacement of Obamacare, and preventing farm workers from forming unions.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said on Wednesday that he intends to block anyone on the government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm.
President Obama urged Congress to pass the bill barring those on the terror watch list from buying guns in a televised speech on Sunday.
The second - term Democrat said he expects to issue an executive order prohibiting anyone on the federal government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm in the state.
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.»
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.
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