Monday, February 19, 2018

Why Not Include The No-Fly List In Background Checks?

“They won’t even add the ‘No-Fly List’ to the background check” is the mantra of the anti-firearm media and politicians every time that a firearm is used in the commission of a crime in this country.
This is of course an attempt to make people believe that the no-fly list is a record of known criminals that are a proven threat to the nation.  Such is not the case.
Depending on who provides the information and perhaps what is factual at the time, the no-fly list consists of 50,000 to 400,000 names.
In July 2017, the FBI told members of the Senate that the no-fly list contained about 81,000 names.  However, we are well aware of the fact that over the past several years the FBI has not been forthcoming in presenting facts to the Congress.
No matter the size of the no-fly list, there is no record of anyone on that list ever committed a shooting.
The record does show that congressmen, policemen, judges, servicemen, etc. have erroneously had trouble boarding aircraft because their name was on the list.
It seems apparent that the addition of names to the no-fly list is somewhat arbitrary and not well vetted.  In addition, names are often very common to perhaps thousands of individuals.
Any attempt to bar individual citizens from purchasing firearms based on a no-fly list will be short lived because it would not be Constitutional because it would deny law abiding Americans their 2nd Amendment rights without due process.
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4 comments:

AliceFaye said...

If Obama had been able to use the no-fly list to stop gun sales, you could bet that anyone named Williams, Lee, Jones, Davis, or Smith would spend the rest of their lives in court trying to get due process.

BlkFedCop said...

The real problem is the moral decadence that the Progressives have intentionally inflicted on this country, in support of their effort to replace our democratic Republic with a Socialist takeover.

What we really need is a no-elect list with nearly every Democrat and a very large number of Republicans named.

wallyb said...

A fellow that I work with was put on the no-fly list because he was overheard discussing a movie.

He was asked what he thought of a movie that he had just seen.

He replied that it was a “big stink bomb”

That's all it took!

RBesq said...

The SCOUS has ruled on more than one case that a person may not be deprived of a Constitutional Right without due process!

As long as the Court maintains a pro-Constitution majority, it will rule the same on the “no-fly list”, “mental disqualification list”, etc.!