The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on an anti-terrorism legislative package that will include a measure to help prevent suspected terrorists from buying guns and also include due process protections.
The NSSF reports in their latest e-mail that the House will also vote on a mental health bill sponsored by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Penn.). Legislation that seeks to prevent terrorists from obtaining firearms must strike a proper balance between the interests of public safety, protecting the integrity of terrorism investigations and the fundamental, constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans.
NSSF supports bipartisan legislation that will both protect America from radical Islamic terrorism and respect the Second and Fifth Amendments. NSSF will keep you informed of development.
The bill is designed to prevent terrorists from launching attacks and obtaining passports, and for other purposes. It states:
The preeminent terrorist threats to the United States are radical Islamist terrorist networks such as al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and their allies and affiliate networks, as well as lone-wolf supporters and sympathizers in the United States and around the world.
Americans are actively being recruited by radical Islamist terrorism propaganda to support the establishment of a global caliphate in general and the destruction of the United States in particular, as 11 well as to repudiate American values.
The present Administration has repeatedly 13 ignored the threat posed by this ideology. In recent years 90 people have been killed 15 in radical Islamist terrorist attacks launched against the United States homeland.