Hat Tip: Patriot Action Network
Al Qaeda Urges American Muslims to Buy Guns for Terror Attacks
Published June 04, 2011
| FoxNews.comAl Qaeda has released a video urging Muslims who live in the U.S. to take advantage of the easy access to firearms and buy guns to kill Americans.
In the two-hour video released Friday, Adam Gadahn, an American-born spokesman for the terror network, cited America as an example where Muslims in the West have tools at their disposal for a holy war against “the enemies of Islam.”
“America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms,” said Gadahn, who is known as Azzam al-Amriki. “You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check and most likely without having to show an identification card.
“So what are you waiting for?” he asked in a matter-of-fact tone.
Let us address this “gun show loophole” assertion. Bluntly, it’s crap. It’s a blatant lie. Alternatively it’s one of the most egregious displays of ignorance I’ve seen of the legal realities in this country, worthy of the Brady disinformation campaign.
Point by point:
1. There are no “fully automatic assault rifle[s]” for sale on the civilian market in this country, with rare and well-defined exceptions. The 1934 NFA (National Firearms Act) as modified by the 1968 GCA (Gun Control Act) has made it so that a) fully automatic “NFA” weapons are only available through a special tax-and-registration process that involves another layer of background check, 2) such NFA weapons made after a certain date (1986) are no longer admitted to the NFA registry. This has made NFA weapons scarce and has driven the prices up into the five and six figure range. A newly-minted, full-auto AK47, such as may be owned by any family in Iraq for a few hundred dollars, is not available at all on our civilian market, and if it were it would cost over $10,000 and require a special “tax stamp” requiring further background scrutiny.
Thus, his assertion that you can “come away with” a full-auto weapon from a gun show is sheer fantasy.
2. Further, let’s look at the claim that you can “go down to a gun show […] and come away with [any firearm at all] without a background check and most likely without having to show an identification card.” There are two kinds of sellers at gun shows: federally licensed [and registered] (FFL) gun dealers and private gun owners looking to buy/sell/trade a couple of guns. Aside from the fact that no private owner of any NFA weapon — a registered weapon, mind you — would drag his prized possession down to a gun show, hoping to sell it to someone who has to go through a six week or longer process to buy it, any guns purchased from the FFL dealers there must, in fact, all be subject to the federal NICS background check before the sale can be completed and, trust me, you will most definitely be showing your ID and your name, address, SSN and all that will be read into the system for that check.
Now, since none of this data is new and since all of it is widely known — even by the Brady disinformation campaign — one has to wonder if this moron is simply the most poorly informed America hater on record or if he’s doing the Brady campaign a favor to help them frame their “disarming America” arguments.
Either way, the guy’s an ass. A lying ass or an ignorant ass is anybody’s guess.
Two snaps up!!
