By Clarence Page
For gun purchasers, should "no-fly" mean "no buy?"
People on the government's terrorist watch list tried to buy guns almost 1,000 times in the last five years, a federal study finds. In nine out of 10 cases, federal authorities let them do it, the report finds, because there was no legal way to stop them.
And that appears to be OK with the gun lobby, which sounds less fired up by the suspicious gun purchases than by Congress' efforts to stop them.
There were 963 attempts by people on the government's "no fly" list to buy guns from licensed dealers over the past five years ending in February, according to the Government Accountability Office report, and 865 were approved. At least one person on the watch list was able to buy explosives.
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For gun purchasers, should "no-fly" mean "no buy?"
People on the government's terrorist watch list tried to buy guns almost 1,000 times in the last five years, a federal study finds. In nine out of 10 cases, federal authorities let them do it, the report finds, because there was no legal way to stop them.
And that appears to be OK with the gun lobby, which sounds less fired up by the suspicious gun purchases than by Congress' efforts to stop them.
There were 963 attempts by people on the government's "no fly" list to buy guns from licensed dealers over the past five years ending in February, according to the Government Accountability Office report, and 865 were approved. At least one person on the watch list was able to buy explosives.
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