Senate Republicans poised to defy NRA on ‘no fly, no buy’
Lindsey Graham on GOP bill: ‘Hope we get a strong bipartisan showing’
CHERYL CHUMLEY
WND.com
June 22, 2016
Thanks in large part to Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine who leans centrist, Republicans in the Senate seem set to go against the caveats of the National Rifle Association and consider a bill that would block those on government-compiled terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns – a provision loosely known as “no fly, no buy.”
The Collins bill specifies two terror watch lists only, but the NRA and other Second Amendment groups have warned such regulations could prove backdoor dings at gun rights. The line of argument is that since bureaucrats are the ones in charge of making and overseeing the lists, the opportunity presents for these same bureaucrats to exercise a little gun control outside the arena of proper legislation.
As WND has previously reported, mistakes can be made with these lists, as well. Now-deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy was once on the list; so was Fox News contributor and Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes.
On top of that, some in the legal world warn taking gun rights absent the judicial branch is a government overreach that is unconstitutional.
Republican presumptive presidential pick Donald Trump has said he’s supportive of certain “no fly, no buy” provisions. And sources in both parties said the Collins bill is gaining steam in part because the idea of doing nothing in the face of Orlando – where Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 and wounded 53 in an act that’s becoming increasingly clear was aligned with radical Islam – is untenable.
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