No Fly List, No Purchasing of Guns People that are currently on the terrorists watch “no fly” list are not able to purchase guns anymore. Ever since the San Bernardino shooting during the previous year, Obama has argued against what he thinks is an abnormally well-known anti-terrorism measure. “ Right now people on the no fly list can just walk into a store and buy a gun. That’s insane,” Obama says.
The terrorist list watch list is a consolidated database of information about people known or reasonably suspected to have engaged in terrorism or related activities. The FBI keeps private watch list’s size, but according to a 2011 FBI fact sheet uncovered by PolitiFact, there were 420,000 members at the time. About 8,400 of those were American citizens of legal residence. The no-fly list had 16,000 names, 500 of them being American. People are only notified that they are on the no fly list when they arrive at an airport and told they can’t fly. David Welna says the no fly list is in fact a legacy of the George W. Bush Justice Department. While President Obama has embraced keeping people from flying whose names appear on the list, in a televised event to the nation, he again hammered revising the policy to no fly, no buy. Obama is arguing that if people that are considered to be terrorist …show more content…
They think that some components that are currently on the list should not be there. They say that this is especially unfair because people who typically belong to such a list do not understand why they would be on it in the first place. In addition, opponents of using the no-fly list as a tool for gun control note that two of the San Bernardino shooters were not part of that list. According to one expert who helped oversee the terrorist watch list under President George W. Bush and Obama, the list is necessarily secretive, involving unknown criteria that determines who gets put on it, which makes due process especially
The terrorist list watch list is a consolidated database of information about people known or reasonably suspected to have engaged in terrorism or related activities. The FBI keeps private watch list’s size, but according to a 2011 FBI fact sheet uncovered by PolitiFact, there were 420,000 members at the time. About 8,400 of those were American citizens of legal residence. The no-fly list had 16,000 names, 500 of them being American. People are only notified that they are on the no fly list when they arrive at an airport and told they can’t fly. David Welna says the no fly list is in fact a legacy of the George W. Bush Justice Department. While President Obama has embraced keeping people from flying whose names appear on the list, in a televised event to the nation, he again hammered revising the policy to no fly, no buy. Obama is arguing that if people that are considered to be terrorist …show more content…
They think that some components that are currently on the list should not be there. They say that this is especially unfair because people who typically belong to such a list do not understand why they would be on it in the first place. In addition, opponents of using the no-fly list as a tool for gun control note that two of the San Bernardino shooters were not part of that list. According to one expert who helped oversee the terrorist watch list under President George W. Bush and Obama, the list is necessarily secretive, involving unknown criteria that determines who gets put on it, which makes due process especially