Sentences with phrase «terror watch lists in»

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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.

There also are no examples of someone being on the terror watch list and buying guns that were later used in a shooting.

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 denieIn 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 deniein 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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

«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.

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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