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NRA Members Disagree With NRA Leadership: Those On Terrorist Watch List Should Not Be Able To Buy Firearms

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that individuals on the federal terrorist watch list were able to purchase firearms and explosives from licensed U.S. dealers 1,119 times. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) told the Senate Homeland Security Committee this month that Congress should close this “terror gap” in the nation’s gun laws. “If society decides that these people are too dangerous to get on an airplane with other people, then it’s probably appropriate to look very hard before you let them buy a gun,” he said.

During the hearing, Bloomberg actually encountered some GOP opposition to this seemingly noncontroversial suggestion. Moreover, the NRA strongly objects to closing the “terror gap,” calling legislation dealing with the issue “21st Century McCarthyism.” Bloomberg is “abusing the word ‘terrorist’ to resurrect and pursue a gun-control agenda,” an NRA spokesperson said.

But it appears that rank-and-file NRA members disagree with their leadership. Today at the NRA’s annual conference in Charlotte, NC, ThinkProgress asked dozens of NRA members if those on the terrorist watch list should be able to purchase firearms and an overwhelming majority agreed with Bloomberg on the need to close the “terror gap.”

Republicans and NRA leadership are standing up for the wishes of our Founding Fathers that terrorist on the terror watch list be able to buy high powered weapons so they can protect themselves at the mall, playgrounds and on planes. I cannot find the exact quote but my copy of the Bill of Rights says somewhere in there that terrorists need guns and we should vote Republican to see they are able to keep buying guns just like ol' Tom Jefferson intended dammit.

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Ron Brownstein published a paragraph this week that actually seemed hard to believe: "If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush's presidency."

This job growth thing is starting to look a lot less bleak. We have to vote Republican/tea party/grizzley mama/ in 2010 and 2012 or Democrats will just keep helping the economy which makes conservatives look real real bad. Go Sarah Palin Go. Bring back the no growth policies of the Bush years fast.