Senator John McCain Votes to Prevent Terrorists from Purchasing Firearms

Statement

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement on his vote in support of an amendment filed by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) that would prevent terrorists from purchasing firearms:

"I believe deeply that we can and must do more to keep guns out the hands of dangerous terrorists who seek to harm us, but I believe just as deeply that we cannot do it at the expense of the constitutional due process rights of law-abiding citizens. That is why I voted in favor of Senator Johnson's legislation that would prevent individuals on the "No Fly' and "Selectee' terrorist watch lists from purchasing a gun and enable law enforcement to take suspected terrorists off the streets while also providing law-abiding citizens with due process protections upfront.

"While the discussion surrounding firearms is important, it is clear that individual actors are inspired by the foreign terrorist ideology that ISIL espouses from its physical sanctuaries in the Middle East that are a result of a failed foreign policy and the absence of strategy from this Administration. To combat this challenge, we must cut radical Islamic extremism off at the source in Syria and Iraq, and that can only happen when the Administration finally develops and implements a strategy to defeat ISIL."

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