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Terror Watch List: Easier to Buy a Gun than to Board a Plane
June 20, 2009 |
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New York Times:
People on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them, according to a new government report.
In one case, a person on the list was able to buy more than 50 pounds of explosives.
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