Wyoming Gun Control Bill
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 11 months ago
CHEYENNE — A new bill would bar anyone on federal terrorism watch lists from buying guns in Wyoming.
“We need to do something about people who are going to attack us getting weapons to do it,” said co-sponsor Sen. James Anderson, R-Casper.
Anderson said he heard a presentation on the issue at a legislative committee meeting last year and asked for a bill to be drafted.
Seventy-one percent of Americans believe that banning gun sales to people on the federal no-fly watch list would be at least somewhat effective at preventing terrorism, according to a June poll by Gallup.
Senate File 75 would add people on the FBI’s Terror Screening Database — which includes the “no-fly list” — to the list of people who are not eligible to possess guns in Wyoming.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate have unsuccessfully pushed several times to pass federal legislation barring people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms. The efforts, which were repeatedly defeated, were intended to pressure Republican senators who oppose any form of gun control.
But if the measure placed conservatives in a difficult political position, it included a further wrinkle.
Because there is little judicial oversight of the various terror watch lists included in the FBI database, several liberal and civil liberties groups — who are already often opposed to the lists — were concerned about taking away the constitutional right to bear arms from American citizens without due process.
“I don’t happen to believe that the military and the police state would make those many mistakes,” Anderson said of who ends up on the terror watch list.
So somebody in Wyoming should ask Anderson why there are “terrorists” here to begin with? What kind of open border policy does he support that lends itself to having terrorists come into America unimpeded?
And that could lead to the next point, which is that the “watch list” is comprised no only of cross border terrorists who should be deported but haven’t been under the Obama administration, but America patriots as well who happen to believe that the second amendment is the final remedy against a tyrannical state. Or in other words, peaceable American citizens who haven’t been tried in any court or found guilty of any crime whatsoever.
He should be forced to admit that in front of people, and then to admit that he is a gun controlling communist. Do I have good readers in Wyoming who can press this issue with Anderson? It looks like y’all have your fair share of trash to take out just like the rest of us do.
On January 16, 2017 at 9:02 am, Haywood Jablome said:
Oh my God…now Wyoming too? We need to stop this coastal plague before it infects the entire country!
On January 16, 2017 at 10:42 pm, Col. Douglas Mortimer said:
Here in Wyoming we have lots of libs that masquerade as republicans because they’d not get into any elected orifice otherwise. Lots of them, rinos everywhere. So screw our right to due process and all that I guess. Fortunately our legislature is only in session for 3 months out of the year, otherwise the damage would be insurmountable.
On January 16, 2017 at 9:25 am, Billy Mullins said:
Just goes to show; RINOS will be RINOS.
On January 16, 2017 at 10:47 am, Iustinianus said:
Wyoming is not the only state whose legislators are proposing this kind of bill. The statist-left’s attempt to accomplish its “no fly no buy” agenda in the U.S. Congress was a catastrophic failure, so it has moved to doing it piecemeal through several states.
Missouri’s House Bill 241 is similar, though fortunately no Republicans in Missouri (currently a supermajority in both houses) are supporting the bill.
http://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB241&year=2017&code=R
These types of bills seem to come in waves, which would imply that their introduction into the various state legislatures is part of a broader coordinated effort. It would not be surprising to find that Wyoming’s James Anderson was receiving money from a large, out of state lobbying group or Soros-like entity.
On January 16, 2017 at 11:02 am, Fred said:
I don’t understand. Terrorists can’t use a gun for terror, it’s already against the law. I thought terrorism was already illegal.
On January 16, 2017 at 2:17 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Fred, that comment is entirely too logical and reasoned for the libturds to even begin to understand it.
On January 17, 2017 at 8:12 am, JohnathanStein said:
Sounds like another case of “We must DO something — this is something, let’s do THAT!”
Sometimes, the stupid burns like a hemorrhoid…
On January 18, 2017 at 12:05 pm, Archer said:
“I don’t happen to believe that the military and the police state would
make those many mistakes,” Anderson said of who ends up on the terror
watch list.
No, the police state would NOT make “those many mistakes”.
They’re not mistakes. It’s done intentionally.
A feature, not a bug.
On January 21, 2017 at 1:29 pm, wildeyedliberal said:
“I don’t happen to believe that the military and the police state would
make those many mistakes,” Anderson said of who ends up on the terror
watch list.
The Police State? Is that a confession?