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petronius

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4. They may have done some cleaning, as a recent WaPo article

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 08:56 PM

Nov 2015

says it's ~700,000 names on the list. And, I'm not sure that they're all US residents/citizens.

That said, I strongly agree, Democrats should be taking a very critical view of lists like this: how they're used, expanded, error-checked. And the default should be to tighten their use, enhance the rigor of the process, increase the transparency, reduce the spread of their application...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/16/why-the-nra-opposed-laws-to-prevent-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns/

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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