[MCCLATCHYDC] A 4-year-old Northern California child found himself on the terrorist watch list that’s now at the center of the congressional gun-control debate.
Identified as Baby Doe in court filings, the boy was one of more than 1 million people added to the federal government’s secret database that’s grown by leaps and bounds since it was established by the Bush administration in 2003.
| At least he won't be able to have a BB gun... |
This is the same watch list that many Democrats want to use to screen out potential gun buyers. The possibility of error alarms civil libertarians and Second Amendment activists alike as Congress considers the proposal, which is popularly marketed as “no-fly, no-buy.”
“If it’s too dangerous for you to board an airplane, it’s too dangerous for you to buy a gun,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
The bill written by Sen. Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
, D-Calif., would allow the Justice Department to block gun sales to watch-listed individuals, whom she called “known or suspected terrorists,” if authorities have a “reasonable belief that the weapon would be used in connection with terrorism.” |