Big gun-grabby news out of Connecticut this afternoon as Governor Dan Malloy announced that he’ll take executive action to prevent those in the “Constitution State” on “gov’t watch lists” from being able to purchase a gun:
We're taking common sense steps in #CT to close the loophole and allow firearm permits to be denied to those on gov't watch lists
— Governor Dan Malloy (Archived) (@GovMalloyOffice) December 10, 2015
DM: "If you cannot fly due to being on a watch list, you shouldn't be able to purchase a firearm" #CloseTheLoophole
— Governor Dan Malloy (Archived) (@GovMalloyOffice) December 10, 2015
Between 2004-2014, data shows that ppl on watch lists tried to buy guns & explosives 2,233 times. They succeeded more than 90% of the time.
— Governor Dan Malloy (Archived) (@GovMalloyOffice) December 10, 2015
How he’ll accomplish this or when has yet to be determined. From the Hartford Courant:
Malloy said discussions with the White House are ongoing and he wasn’t sure when Connecticut’s gun ban would be implemented.
And can what Malloy wants be implemented for just one state? The real problem here is that there’s no one list for Malloy to use and all of these Democrat politicians are lying when they insinuate there is. The larger “terror watch list” — which Malloy tweeted about — is different than the much bandied about “no-fly list.” And as Gabriel Malor reported yesterday for The Federalist, neither of those “lists” are what would be used anyway. Obama wants to create another list altogether:
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It creates a new list of people banned from buying guns, but it uses the criteria of the terrorist watch list. https://t.co/paR3IQMIlI
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 8, 2015
When Obama pulls his silly "if they can't fly, they can't buy guns," EVERYONE should say that the Dem bill isn't about the no-fly list.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 8, 2015
Amazed at how little people care that the no-fly list is actually a different thing than the terrorist watch list criteria in the Dem bill.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 8, 2015
Obama and Clinton both referred to the no-fly list when talking about the gun ban. They're lying. The Dem bill doesn't use the no-fly list.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 8, 2015
So before Connecticut can put the ban in place, the government has to create this new list, which it hasn’t done yet.
Verdict: All hype.
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