You don’t have to look far to find cases of people side stepping common sense to further their ideological campaign against lawful firearms ownership as is evidenced by the 7 year old who was suspended from his school for pretending a pencil was a gun whilst playing with his friend (McNamara, 2013). It could be argued that the Attorney General cannot be trusted to exercise fair discretion in such cases, given that he is the appointee of a government administration that has already demonstrated a willingness to support further restrictions on firearms ownership (NRA – ILA, 2011). Both the H.R 1506 and the S.34 Bill are designed to give the Attorney General discretionary powers to deny the sale or transfer of a firearm as part of an expanded background check system or to deny or revoke a firearms licence or permit.
On the surface stopping dangerous terrorists from purchasing firearms and explosives (H.R 1506, 2011) (S.34, 2013) could only be described as a good thing, yet the objections to the proposed Bills are not unfounded, and nor are associated criticisms limited to the NRA, or even just gun owners. So it is perhaps not surprising that gun control supporters would be casting accusations towards the NRA who in support of the millions of lawful gun owners in America, successfully campaigned against the Bill which was once again put forward by Frank Lautenberg, the Democratic US senator for New Jersey and have successfully halted the push for further gun control at the Senate (Chang, 2013). According to Pilkington, evidence has now come to light that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on a national terrorism watch list in spite of this, Tamerlan (as well as his brother), was able to legally purchase weapons and explosives from gun shops.
Retrieved from (A-N).As expected it wasn’t long before those who champion the case for gun control laid the blame for the Boston bombings at the NRA (Pilkington, 2013). 2001 Publishers' Development Corporation 11 Oct.
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