Congress is again debating the proposals we wrote about last year to deny firearms licenses or permits to anyone ‘suspected of supporting’ terrorism.
We stand by our earlier analysis and our condemnation of this proposal as (1) another step from sanctions against criminal conduct to precrimepredictive policing, and (2) an expansion of the collateral consequences of secret, unconstitutional, extra-judicial, administrative blacklisting decisions.
This post was published at Papers Please on July 6, 2016.
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