Sorry if this offends someone's ill conceived (tortured) reading of the 2nd Amendment -- there is reasonable cause to deny their purchase -- we are at war. Their lives are not at risk (usually) ... Not selling them arms is risk-avoidance. However, there should be a right of appeal to show cause if they are US citizens.
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But in the United States, known and suspected terrorists are allowed to purchase firearms under federal law.
"Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives under current federal law," the Government Accountability Office concluded in 2010. The law prohibits felons, fugitives, drug addicts and domestic abusers from purchasing a firearm in the United States. But people on the FBI's consolidated terrorist watchlist ? typically placed there when there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are a known or suspected terrorist ? can freely purchase handguns or assault-style rifles.
And, as the GAO found, a number of them do: Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from American dealers at least 2,233 times. And in 2,043 of those cases ? 91 percent of the time ? they succeeded. There are about 700,000 people on the watch-list ? a point that civil libertarians have made to underscore that many on the list may be family members or acquaintances of people with potential terrorist connections.
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