GOP blocks debate on bill to stop terrorists from buying guns

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They won't even talk about it.

Republicans blocked a debate Tuesday on a bill that would close a loophole allowing suspected terrorists to legally buy guns.

The Republicans’ flag waving for the NRA comes only 18 days after heavily armed ISIS-linked attackers savagely slaughtered 130 people in Paris and only four days after a gunman left three people dead and nine wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.

The gun-loving Republicans — and their National Rifle Association backers — have successfully blocked the bipartisan bill.

“What happened is appalling, and justice should be swift,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said. “Clearly, we can do more, and one common denominator in these tragedies is mental illness. That’s why we need to look at fixing our nation’s mental health system.”

Federally licensed gun dealers are already barred from selling firearms to people with felony convictions or serious mental illnesses.

But known terrorists are free to buy assault rifles and other weapons.

More than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the U.S. over the past 11 years, according to the federal Government Accountability Office.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/house-dems-rip-gop-blocking-gun-debate-article-1.2452290

 

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More Americans had their backgrounds checked purchasing guns on Black Friday than any day on record, according to data released by the FBI this week.

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System processed 185,345 requests on Nov. 27, one of the largest retail sales days in the country.

"This was an approximate 5% increase over the 175,754 received on Black Friday 2014," wrote Stephen Fischer, the FBI's chief of multimedia productions. "The previous high for receipts were the 177,170 received on 12/21/2012."

Previous spikes for background checks, conducted before a gun buyer can obtain a firearm, occurred after prominent mass shootings, like in December 2012 in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Other Black Friday shopping days in 2014, 2013 and 2012 occupied the FBI's "top 10" list of the most background checks processed in a 24-hour period.
Since 1998, FBI data shows that the bureau has processed requests for more than 220 million firearm purchases.

Licensed sellers deny sales to failed background checks based on a variety of factors including criminal backgrounds, domestic violence convictions or restraining orders.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s-record-185k-gun-background-checks/76624604/




Liberal gun grabbers are pissing in their panties.....

They are?

ISIS is thanking the GOP.

 

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isn't it unconstitutional to deny rights to those who have committed no crime?

 

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isn't it unconstitutional to deny rights to those who have committed no crime?

Is it?

 

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They won't even talk about it.

Republicans blocked a debate Tuesday on a bill that would close a loophole allowing suspected terrorists to legally buy guns.

The Republicans’ flag waving for the NRA comes only 18 days after heavily armed ISIS-linked attackers savagely slaughtered 130 people in Paris and only four days after a gunman left three people dead and nine wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.

The gun-loving Republicans — and their National Rifle Association backers — have successfully blocked the bipartisan bill.

“What happened is appalling, and justice should be swift,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said. “Clearly, we can do more, and one common denominator in these tragedies is mental illness. That’s why we need to look at fixing our nation’s mental health system.”

Federally licensed gun dealers are already barred from selling firearms to people with felony convictions or serious mental illnesses.

But known terrorists are free to buy assault rifles and other weapons.

More than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the U.S. over the past 11 years, according to the federal Government Accountability Office.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/house-dems-rip-gop-blocking-gun-debate-article-1.2452290

If terrorists aren't allowed to buy guns, then how is the GOP supposed to keep their voting base afraid of everything and everyone?

 

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