{"id":66457,"date":"2016-06-22T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66457"},"modified":"2016-06-22T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:59:19","slug":"collins-proposes-gun-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66457","title":{"rendered":"Collins proposes gun deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News <\/a>reports that Susan Collins, a member of the Republican party and who represents Maine in the Senate, has proposed a bill that fulfills the whining Democrats’ cry for “do something” in the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack on a nightclub. She proposes offering the Democrats a chance to vote on a bill that restricts folks on terrorist watch-lists and no-fly lists from buying a gun and it offers those erroneously posted on those lists a way to restore their rights;<\/p>\n

The government’s overall terrorist watch list has 1 million people on it. Collins’ measure would let federal authorities bar gun sales to two narrower groups: the no-fly list with 81,000 people and the selectee list with 28,000 people. Selectees can fly after unusually intensive screening.<\/p>\n

All but a combined total of around 2,800 people on those lists are foreigners, who are mostly unable to purchase firearms in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Under Collins’ proposal, Americans denied guns could appeal their rejections to federal courts. The FBI would be notified if someone who’s been on the broader terrorist watch list in the past five years buys a gun, but could not stop the purchase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due process is always a good idea.<\/p>\n

Of course, Dingy Harry Reid approves of the bi-partisan attempt at a compromise, but he still won’t endorse the deal, because it has Barely-a-Republican Collins’ name on it. Chuck Schumer thinks it’s an indication that the NRA losing it’s grip on the Senate GOP. Actually, there’s not much that the NRA could not like about the bill. I doubt Collins was ever in the NRA’s grip anyway.<\/p>\n

But, of course, the bill will fail because Democrats need a gun issue in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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