“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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