{"id":62853,"date":"2015-11-18T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62853"},"modified":"2015-11-18T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:04:09","slug":"2k-on-terror-watch-list-buy-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62853","title":{"rendered":"2k on Terror Watch list buy firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/11\/16\/why-the-nra-opposed-laws-to-prevent-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns\/\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that more than two thousand people on the Terror Watch list have been able to purchase firearms despite their status;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from American dealers at least 2,233 times. And in 2,043 of those cases \u2014 91 percent of the time \u2014 they succeeded. There are about 700,000 people on the watch-list \u2014 a point that civil libertarians have made to underscore that many on the list may be family members or acquaintances of people with potential terrorist connections.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill to do that earlier this year. The &#8220;Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015&#8221; 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 watchlist in error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Post article, the NRA is at fault for those bills dying in committee, but they don&#8217;t mention that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/watch-lists?redirect=technology-and-liberty\/watch-lists\">ACLU<\/a> has a part in that result, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that more than two thousand people on the Terror Watch list have &hellip; <a title=\"2k on Terror Watch list buy firearms\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62853\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2k on Terror Watch list buy firearms<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}