Political Quotes

“I appreciate the Senator from Texas. Amendment No. 4720 Madam President, I rise to speak in support of the amendment to keep guns out of the hands of known or suspected terrorists. The Orlando attack again exposed a dangerous loophole in our law that allows known or suspected terrorists to legally purchase guns through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS. We call this loophole the terror gap. Let me explain what that means. There are currently 10 categories of people who are blocked from buying guns through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS, and here they are. They include felons, those under felony indictment, fugitives from justice, drug users or addicts, those committed to mental institutions or adjudicated as mentally defective, foreign nationals here unlawfully or those with nonimmigrant visas, such as temporary workers, those dishonorably discharged from the military, and those with a domestic violence restraining order. But one group that cannot be blocked from buying guns are those who are known or suspected terrorists on the FBI's consolidated terrorist watch list. They can buy guns, but certain aliens can't, dishonorably discharged can't, people of renounced citizenship can't, drug users can't, fugitives from justice, felons, et cetera, are the ones who cannot. We know that individuals on the watch list have exploited this loophole.…”