Gun loophole hurts anti-terror efforts
But those goals are being undermined because the nation's chief law enforcement agency, the Justice Department (news - web sites), is using a loophole in federal law to let terror suspects purchase guns. Until recently, department critics contend, the loophole also denied FBI (news - web sites) terrorism investigators access to information that might help them track suspects. Remember, folks, it's easy to get on a "suspected terrorist" watchlist. You don't have to be convicted of anything. Even just being an environmental activist and donating to the wrong group, one a little too radical, can do it. Or getting quoted in a newspaper in a moment of save-the-animals passion. The background check system looks for felony convictions precisely because the requirements for a felony conviction include evidence and a fair trial -- unlike a "terrorist watch list". |
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