Oh, he passed background checks? Federal agencies knew that a man hired as a security guard at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. was an accused Somali war criminal, CNN reported Friday. Yusuf Abdi Ali, who served as a military commander during the Somali Civil War, has been accused of torturing civilians, burning villages, and conducting […]
The Free Beacon reported: Gun sales broke records yet again in the month of March. The FBI performed 2,523,265 firearms-related background checks between March 1 and March 31, according to the agency’s records. That’s a new record for the month. It’s nearly 35,000 more checks than the previous record set in March 2014. Despite the […]
The number of background checks that the FBI had to conduct hit a record-high this past month. As the Free Beacon reported: The FBI’s National Instant Background Check System processed 1,795,102 applications to buy a firearm in September. That represents a new record: 335,739 more checks than the previous September high set in 2012, or […]
As the Free Beacon reported: The New York Times published a piece Monday that misstated federal gun law and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s position on gun control. In a piece detailing Clinton’s new gun control proposals, the paper implied that gun sales made at gun shows or online are different than sales made elsewhere.
She wants to expand federal background checks via executive order as president and fails to realize that not even background checks stopped several shooters in mass killings in recent years. It’s all about the narrative.
It’s a bit tricky to explain, but here’s what the Free Beacon reported: The Social Security Administration (SSA) said in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee that it plans to add some recipients to the federal gun background check system, effectively barring them from legally purchasing firearms. The letter was in response to […]