Montage: Birth of a Talking Point — ‘The No Fly, No Buy Loophole’

All of the sudden, it’s a ‘loophole’ Americans aren’t automatically banned from buying guns after being added to a watch list

Loopholes, as conventionally understood, are narrow legal carve-outs people exploit to avoid the larger impact of the law itself. After the San Bernardino massacre, many in Washington began demanding new restrictions on gun ownership, specifically a ban on anyone on the government's no-fly list.

In his weekly radio address last Saturday, President Obama said, "Right now, people on the No-Fly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. That is insane. If you’re too dangerous to board a plane, you’re too dangerous, by definition, to buy a gun --and so I’m calling on Congress to close this loophole, now."

Almost overnight, gun control activists everywhere began describing the non-existence of such a ban as a "loophole."

See for yourself in the above montage. 

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