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billh58

(6,635 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 03:56 PM Dec 2016

Maggie Hassan says ISIS advertises lax U.S. gun laws

As gun policy takes a central role in New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race, Democrat Maggie Hassan is warning that terrorists are trying to exploit federal laws to obtain firearms.

Hassan brought up the point in the first televised debate against Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte.

"With her solution, terrorists can still today — and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it — buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America," Hassan said on the debate stage at New England College.

Is it really a point terrorists are spreading? Let’s look.

PolitiFact has already looked into Hassan’s claim that Ayotte voted against a proposal to expand background checks and found it Mostly True.

http://www.politifact.com/new-hampshire/statements/2016/oct/24/maggie-hassan/maggie-hassan-says-isis-advertises-lax-us-gun-laws/

Maggie Hassan is the Governor of New Hampshire, and is the Democratic US Senator Elect from that state. She is a realistic supporter of gun control, and is a voice for sanity in the war on gun violence in this country.

Gun huggers steadfastly claim that it is impossible for "prohibited persons" to buy guns online, or at gun shows. That is an inconvenient truth that the Second Amendment absolutist delicate flowers try to ignore, but can't hide.
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Maggie Hassan says ISIS advertises lax U.S. gun laws (Original Post) billh58 Dec 2016 OP
I'm positive thhey not only know about our LACK OF LAW, but teach their jihadiists to napi21 Dec 2016 #1
Dylan Roof SCantiGOP Dec 2016 #2

napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. I'm positive thhey not only know about our LACK OF LAW, but teach their jihadiists to
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 04:20 PM
Dec 2016

use that as a BIG advantage! Of course the NRAers will just say "Not to worry! Our GUNS will protect us!"

SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
2. Dylan Roof
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 04:29 PM
Dec 2016

The Charelston self-taught racist who gunned down 9 people at the oldest black church in SC was not allowed to buy a gun because of a previous drug felony. When he went to buy the Glock that he used in the crime the owner dutifully filed the FBI notification and told him he could come back in 3 days to get the gun. Since the gun shop did not hear from the FBI after the 72 hour period, he walked out with the gun.
The FBI later called to tell the shop not to sell the gun --- 12 days after the massacre had taken place.
There are not words adequate to express how wrong and stupid this is.

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