Being on the terrorist watch list is not grounds for being denied a legal firearm. Louis Klarevas has details:
The Government Accountability Office has found that,from February 2004 to February 2010, 1,225 purchases involvingindividuals on the watch list were submitted for a Brady backgroundcheck. Ninety-one percent of these transactions were approved; theother 9 percent were denied for reasons other than the purchasers'suspected terrorist activities. In 2009, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad,who...
Published on June 14, 2010 14:05