[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 20075-20076]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TERRORIST GUN LOOPHOLE

  (Mr. NORCROSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, these are very anxious times here in 
America with good reason. We have an urgent national security issue at 
hand that allows somebody who is on the terrorist watch list to legally 
purchase a firearm.
  How can somebody who pledges allegiance to ISIS be allowed to 
purchase a gun here in America?
  We would never give a set of keys to somebody who was drunk to get 
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the wheel. How is it that we allow someone a license to go and purchase 
a firearm?
  We allow them to go and purchase a firearm in this country who are on 
the terrorist watch list. Would the same fight be taking place if they 
wanted to get onto an airliner, saying: Hey, let's let he or she on. 
They are on the terrorist watch list. I want them to fly with me.
  That is the insanity we are dealing with. Over the course of the next 
few weeks, we have the ability to make a commonsense, simple approach 
to reducing the chance of terrorism here in America; that is, to keep 
those who are on the terrorist watch list from purchasing a firearm.
  Let's come together, bipartisan, and pass this approach.

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