Trump to discuss terrorism watch list, no fly ban with NRA

Mr. Murphy was joined on the floor by Democratic senators like Elizabeth Warren of MA and Richard Blumenthal of CT, as well as Republican Sen.

As of right now, it sure looks like he’s failed it miserably, ” said Dudley Brown, president of the National Association for Gun Rights, an NRA rival.

Reid said there were no Republican proposals “that come close to attracting Democratic support”.

I can’t add much of substance to my colleague Sarah Marloff’s immediate lamentation online on the larger meaning of the Orlando massacre (“In the Wake of Orlando”, June 13), nor to the global multimedia wave of reporting, speculation, testimony, and commentary that has followed.

Earlier in the week, some Democrats in the House of Representatives interrupted a moment of silence for the victims, with shouts of “Where’s the bill?” to protest the Republican-led chamber’s refusal to consider tougher gun laws.

“How many of our children’s dreams must be destroyed by gun violence before we do the common-sense things that we agree on to begin to shrink those numbers?” he asked. “If you have suspected terrorist links”, she said, “you should not be able to buy a gun”. As with many Republicans, the NRA believes such a restriction would infringe on the Constitutional rights of individuals, according to CNN. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) and a majority of the U.S. Senate.

Under it, people on watch lists or no-fly lists would be barred from buying firearms.

Mr. Comey, testifying to the Senate Appropriations Committee in 2015, said right now his agents are flagged if someone on a watchlist buys a gun.

Numerous nation’s leading newspapers have dedicated extensive space to calls for gun control.

And while many are calling for new laws to restrict the sale of assault rifles, as well as stricter rules about who can and cannot buy guns, in general, it has seemed as though gun lobby the National Rifle Association has consistently been against moving any of these policies forward.

“Our position is no guns for terrorists-period”, it said. There’s just one problem with that: it wouldn’t have.

But today, after 136 mass shootings in the first 164 days of the year, after Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, and after reportedly meeting with candidate-shaped suckhole Donald Trump this morning, the NRA has (slightly) changed their tune.

“The Cornyn bill is outlandish and is worse than nothing”.

He said on Monday in a New Hampshire speech that she wants to “disarm law-abiding Americans” yet has no qualms with allowing thousands of Syrian refugees into the country who could be Trojan-horse terrorists.

The NRA responded by saying it would meet him but it already opposes terrorists buying guns.

The Trump campaign declined to provide more information about the NRA meeting.

But the group acknowledged Wednesday they would be “happy to meet” with the Republican flagbearer. The NRA, for example, as noted above, would say it isn’t against denying guns to people on terrorist watch lists. The guidelines allow the administration to name individuals as representatives of terrorist groups they have no demonstrable connection to, or to name entire “categories” of people on to the no-fly list.

An FBI official said in 2014 there were 64,000 people on the no-fly list and 800,000 on the broader list.