Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If you're under investigation, you should not be able to get a gun. Full stop.

But......Mateen was not under investigation. It was closed.

True but we can still agree that allowing someone who is under investigation to buy an assault weapon is a very bad idea. And move to make that against the law.

Or are you against that?!

Please explain how this would work. BRB after I get the popcorn. Would any FBI investigation suffice? What about a state or local investigation into the actions of a white supremacist group or sovereign citizen? WhT happens when the target of an investigation is barred from purchasing a gun and thus discovers he is a target?

Anonymous wrote:I think if you're under FBI investigation you should not be allowed to buy a gun. I also think if you're under FBI investigation you probably shouldn't be allowed to run for President.

Martin Luther King was under FBI investigation. Would it have been wrong to sell him a gun??

I thought this was an interesting op-Ed on the watch lists and gun control:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/28/i-help-innocent-people-get-off-terror-watch-lists-as-a-gun-control-tool-theyre-useless/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_mhp-card-posteverything%3Ahomepage%2Fcard

I hope that at the very least, this debate will result in reforms of the Watch List system. I'd hate to see conservatives declare victory (yay, they can buy guns!) but let the mistreatment of people mistakingly on the list continue. DH has some knowledge of how these lists work and said that the vast majority of those on the list are overseas anyway, and of those in the US, many are on the list as a mistake.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

A rule that makes it harder for people to do bad things isn't a bad rule simply because some bad people will figure out a way to get around it.