Washington Post: The no-fly list is a terrible tool for gun control, in part because it is a terrible tool

It came after President Obama’s Oval Office address, during which he advocated for excluding people on the government’s no-fly list from buying weapons.
The point of the joke — which I very quickly realized was lost on some, making it a bad joke — was that the no-fly list is a secret list that uses secret criteria to determine who finds a home on it. So if you link banning guns to the no-fly list, the scenario presented is completely feasible: The government could theoretically add anyone it wants to the no-fly list, even broad categories of people, and thereby prevent them from owning a gun. …Read the Rest

Source:: NRA-ILA