You can blame the NRA for making this possible. In fact, the NRA is currently trying to destroy ATF's ability to maintain a database on illegal firearms and the stores that provide them.

Nice to know Homeland Security has done nothing since Al Qaeda made mention in their training handbooks that the laws in the United STates made it easy for their operatives to acquire guns.

Once again we see the result of the NRA owning the US Congress, which has consistently given in to their demands that guns be sold without discretion. This country also has a long history of arming our enemies, a policy that deserves a critical look.

You know where I see the NRA's influence? I see it when someone breaks into my mother's home and she is able to prevent a rape. I see it when a local woman thwarts an attacker with her pistol that she is legally allowed to carry. I see it when a shopkeeper in LA is allowed to defend his property during a riot.

The NRA has nothing to do with this story. National firearm registries are one of the first of a series of steps of usurpations of human rights that leads to oppression of all peoples. Be a student of history.

Once again the NRA demonstrates that they care more about gun manufacturers profits and their own organizational finances than they do about national security and defending our country from terrorists.

What does the NRA have to do with this? If what the story said is true, then these guns were bought using "local women as intermediaries". That means they were probably bought legally by these women, then given or sold to these alleged terrorists. There isn't a registry or log in the world that would stop this. People who don't like guns always blame the NRA and try to get more rules and regulations in place, that don't work. Here in California it is illegal to but or sell assault weapons but their are still crimes commited with these types of weapons. You know why? Because criminals don't get apply for a firearms card and don't buy their weapons legally. Period. You can have a national firearms registry and ballistics registry but if I'm a criminal I'm not walking into the local gun store to buy a weapon that will be traced backed to me when i commit my crime. Doesn't anyone realize that? Criminals might be ignorant but they are not stupid. Well some are!

Blaming the NRA is like blaming Remington or Smith & Wesson. Might as well blame the vehicle they were driving or the road they were driving on. And remember, these guns were stopped at the Canadian border.

As I’ve said before, strengthen the borders – on both sides. Canada keeps the guns out, and the US keeps the terrorists out. Both countries are making it far too easy for the fanatics of the world to operate.

The NRA should be shut down and our present government booted out of office.

the guns were probably bought legally. The "thwarfed" attempt at terrorism should not be used as an example of denying firearms that is constitutionally my right. I object to the confiscating of legally owned firearms that was done in New Orleans during and after the hurricane. Officials had the addresses for the owners...and went after them even though they were being used for self-protection, as intended. Better border security is needed. Period.

Zealots will find a way to harm whomever their god tells them to hate. If you take away explosives they'll use farm fertilizers. If you ban firearms they'll use box cutters. If you take away knives they'll incite mobs with stones. We, the USA, are in much more danger from the collaborators, such as these women, who support the zealots by supplying them with material, information, a place to sleep and food to eat while they connive to destroy us. Make them an example and stop blaming internal politics. No house divided ever won a war.

How is the ATF going to create an
ILLEGAL FIREARMS data base?
By a store selling a firearm does this make it ILLEGAL?
How does the NRA fit into this picture?
Mark G. has all the answers. Just the wrong Questions.
Gene

Putting this into a perspective that's missing, these suspects purchased 5000 lbs of nitrogen fertilizer, enough to make three Oklahoma City bombs. The more catastrophic threat to the public, by any measure, was their bomb in the making rather then their handguns.

Focusing on the NRA is rather lame.

The Ire and soleen of these vitriolic supporters of the NRA are but indications of their recognition of the groundswell of opposition and indignation of the American People at large in response to the obfuscation and emotional pandering of the neoconservative right wing ideologues. Never fear, my brave fellow Americans;
They're going down to the political defeat of the Century and back to the insignificance they so richly deserve, this fall!

From what I know, the NRA is an Association of people who own guns and are responsible with them. I do believe they put together books and manuals on gun safety as well as conduct courses on the issue. The NRA is just a club of gun owners and has nothing to do with this issue. I suppose next you would like to blame the all the other clubs that exist for something that has gone wrong. This issue deals totally with ATF and not the NRA, how about next time you want to make a comment on an issue at least know what you are talking about.

As suspected the NRA lackeys jumped all over this story -- as for the man who said he sees the NRA as the ones who allow his mother to defend herself against a rapist, it is statistically much more likely she will end up shooting a family member with that gun than a rapist or intruder. The ATF knows what gun shops are complicit in straw purchases and "lost" guns but they have been hamstrung in their efforts to close those shops due to the big money politicking of the NRA. There is blood on their hands and all those posting in support of them. The American people are starting to understand this and the NRA's days of complete power over gun issues is drawing to a close. Changing laws saves lives, it has been proven in California in reduced death and gun crime rates. To quote one of the NRA's operatives posting, "next time you want to make a comment on an issue at least know what you are talking about." Fake data and stoking peoples fears will not win the day.

The NRA would like you to think they're an innocent "club" of gun owners. It's not the sway of the only 3 million NRA members that move congress, but their $100 million bankroll from the gun industry.

The fact of the matter is, U.S. laws make the United States the easiest place for terrorists to arm themselves. Last I heard there's no shortage of hunters in Canada, but if you're looking for guns for crime or terrorism, thanks to the NRA we are the shopping mall to the world.