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EL34x4

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2. At the very least, people need to be notified if they're on it

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 08:45 PM

Nov 2015

And be offered the opportunity to argue their case to be removed from it.

It is a crime to lie on a 4473 form when buying a firearm. If this law were to pass (and it really has no chance of ever passing) they would have to add the line "are you on the government's no-fly list?" to the list of prohibitive questions. How would the applicant know how to truthfully answer the question as the no-fly list is secret?

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Democrats push to prevent gun sales to those on terror list [View all] applegrove Nov 2015 OP

If they're going to do this, they need to clean up the damn list. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #1

At the very least, people need to be notified if they're on it EL34x4 Nov 2015 #2

That would work. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #3

They may have done some cleaning, as a recent WaPo article petronius Nov 2015 #4

Due process derby378 Nov 2015 #5