Innocent until you’re on the list
Gunlaws has the skinny on HR1195. The purpose of the bill is:
To increase public safety and reduce the threat to domestic security by including persons who may be prevented from boarding an aircraft in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes.
This bill will prevent people on terror watch-lists from passing the NICS background check conducted when they buy guns. In other words, without any conviction of a crime, a person’s rights will be denied.
March 16th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
[…] that the law to prevent people, who may not be terrorists but are on a terror watch-list, from buying guns could open up the door to back-door registration […]