Via Americablog, we learn that the NRA is opposing a proposal to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists. There’s nothing really surprising about the NRA taking that position. They’re nothing if not consistent. They’ll probably get their way. After all, this is the Administration that barred the FBI from checking gun records of people who were detained as potential terrorists. Illegal detention yes, poking your nose into gun ownership, no.
In a way, you have to admire the NRA. At least they stick to their guns, so to speak, and protect their made up Constitutional rights. That’s more than most of us do for our real Constitutional rights.
Something in the article made me come up short, though. If ever an Administration gave its all to the NRA, it would be the present one. You’d think the NRA would cut it a bit of slack. But no. They’ve got a fresh new reason to resist federal intervention in the sacred rights of terrorist gun buyers:
“Right now law enforcement carefully monitors all firearms sales to those on the terror watch list,” said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. “Injecting the attorney general into the process just politicizes it.”
Really, in light of recent news, that’s like rubbing salt in an open wound.
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