Tuesday, December 8, 2015

NC: Cooper joins call to keep firearms from terror suspects

 Handgun, firearm

Attorney General Roy Cooper on Monday called on state lawmakers to approve legislation that would prevent anyone being monitored by the FBI as a terror suspect from purchasing firearms in North Carolina.

"Stopping terror suspects from getting weapons that could harm our state and its people makes common sense," Cooper said in a statement. "Even if Washington won't act, we can."

In the wake of last week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., the U.S. Senate voted down a measure that would have curtailed the gun rights of people on the government's no-fly list and other FBI databases of terror suspects.

Cooper, a Democrat hoping to unseat Republican Gov. Pat McCrory next fall, quoted a statistic from the U.S. Government Accountability Office that more than 2,000 terror suspects legally purchased guns in the United States from 2004 to 2014.

More @ WRAL

6 comments:

  1. Be careful what you ask for with any agency of the Feds. Prevention of purchasing a gun could include many groups, including conservative, religious and patriot groups. Even people holding a motorcycle license could be prevented from purchasing a firearm.
    Once agencies in Washington get hold of the ability to research and determines who may be a problem, you open the Pandora Box and before long everyone for some simple reason will be prevented from purchasing firearms.
    Give an inch and they will take a mile!

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    1. Give an inch and they will take a mile!

      Absolutely.

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  2. It is, at the least political grandstanding and appears to most likely be demagoguery, for the highest elected official in the state to call for a denial of due process for what is a secret list, maintained by unnamed bureaucrats at the behest of a president whose motivations are in question. Why don't we go ahead and deny those on the list the right to freedom of speech or assembly, and compel them to give evidence against themselves as well. Noone favors arming potential terrorists but due process is sacrosanct in our system of justice, and until an individual is judged in a court of law to be guilty of a crime, you cannot so casually strip them of their constitutional rights.

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    1. Why don't we go ahead and deny those on the list the right to freedom of speech or assembly, and compel them to give evidence against themselves as well.

      Really.

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  3. What the hell has happened to North Carolina?

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    1. He wants to run against the current governor so is tacking to the left unfortunately.

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