Due process
Chuck Schumer (D – his own gravitational field) is not a fan of it:
Senator Charles Schumer held a press conference on Sunday to call on the Department of Justice to require immediate notification of the Joint Terrorism Task Force when a suspect of a terrorist inquiry attempts to purchase a gun.
Currently, the FBI Counterterrorism Division is notified of background checks when a gun purchaser is listed on the Terrorist Screening Database, but the watch list is not inclusive enough. Senator Schumer says there are many more people who should be on that list who presently are not.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
“Senator Schumer says there are many more people who should be on that list who presently are not.”
Like, from Chuckie’s point of view, all gun owners.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
“Like, from Chuckie’s point of view, all gun owners.”
Now that’s just not true. all opto-oriented, bipedal, carbon based life forms is much closer to his views.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
One word “douchebag”.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Isn’t Chuckles Schumer has a federal concealed carry permit holder? I remember he has a very rare permit to carry in NYC.
No doubt he wants to add gun owners to the terrorist database rather than check against it.
I’m trying to imagine how they justify denying a Major in the military a purchase. They may be able to delay for three days, but I’m guessing that would just tell the major that he was being investigated.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:51 am
How can you be a Senator and have no clue how things work? Information goes into the intel world but little comes out. I used to process clearances of foreign nationals to visit federal facilities. We’d get the info and send it off to the security office. From there it supposedly went to those who liaised with the intel types. Rule was, no news was good news. Meaning if the guy was a problem, he just wouldn’t show up but we’d never hear anything one way or another.
In order to notify the JTTF that a terror target had a NICS inquiry for a gun, there has to be a list available to people outside the JTTF of those under investigation. They don’t reveal who is being scrutinized even for regular criminal investigations.