Washington Examiner:
Senate lawmakers are exploring whether a gun control compromise might be reached that bans weapons sales to “smaller lists” of people who national security and law enforcement experts believe are connected to terrorism, instead of some of the much larger lists of people that the government maintains.
“There’s beginning to be a coalescing around smaller lists, I think,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told the Washington Examiner. “Maybe, hopefully.”
Such a policy prescription would be the product of a behind-the-scenes conversation about how the government tracks suspected terrorists, one that is more precise than the political fight that dominated Congress over the past week.
The public debate pits Democratic proponents of the ban against Republicans who worry about depriving people of their right to buy a gun without due process. In private, lawmakers understand that the government maintains a variety of lists, some of which might be more useful than others for targeting terror suspects.
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