The short, unhappy life of HR 1167

[derby378]

Does the US House of Representatives have no confidence in the No-Fly List?

Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) introduced HR 1167 on February 16, 2007. The provisions of HR 1167, also known as the "No Fly, No Buy Act of 2007," seeks to amend USC Title 18, Section 922(d) by prohibiting anyone who is on the Federal "No-Fly List" from obtaining a firearm, regardless of whether or not any such individual has ever done anything to warrant inclusion on the list.

To date, only one other Representative has cosponsored this bill - James Moran of Virginia's 8th Congressional District.

Our Democratic Representatives, with the exclusion of McCarthy and Moran, are to be commended for their common sense on the matter of HR 1167. It is in the best interests of this nation that the No-Fly List should never be used to deny law-abiding Americans access to firearms.

If I may venture a personal comment, I believe that it is also in the best interests of this nation that USC Title 49, Section 114(h) - which establishes the No-Fly List to begin with - should be done away with entirely. If you want to make our airports and our airlines safe and secure from terrorist attack, casting suspicion on innocent, law-abiding Americans is a most un-American way to achieve this goal.

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[Warpy]

1. Considering a lot of folks with very common names

are on the no fly list and considering how many folks who share those names are harassed by airport security who can't tell the difference, this was a bad bill.

The problem is that Ted Smith the shoe store owner is regarded exactly as Ted Smith, the recent convert to Islam whose neighbors turned him in for being all too creepy in his rhetoric against an amorphous enemy.

Until that no fly list is just a little more precise and until innocent folks whose most intemperate statement was "Kill the umpire!" are off the hook, it's going to be a very bad idea to tie that list to anything.

[soothsayer]

2. agreec