ACLU Opposes Use Of ‘Unfair Watchlist System’ To Enforce Gun Control

The ACLU opposes the modest Collins meaure to bar gun purchases by people on terroist watch lists.  This is one of the reasons I am not an ACLU person.  Their rule-bound approach to rights leads them to absolutist positions.  Since the Supreme Court in D.C. v. Heller has declared gun possession a fundamental right the ACLU takes the same absolutist position toward that "right" as it does to speech.  I dissent. - gwc
ACLU Opposes Use Of ‘Unfair Watchlist System’ To Enforce Gun Control

ByALLEGRA KIRKLAND Talking Points Memo JUNE 23, 2016

Democrats’ recent efforts to secure votes on gun control measures in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida have stoked criticism not just from Republican leadership but from some on the left.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sent a letter to senators laying out its opposition to the latest legislation up for consideration, a proposal by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that would bar anyone on certain federal government watchlists from buying guns.
“The ACLU strongly urges you to vote against the Collins Amendment because it uses the errorprone and unfair watchlist system, along with vague and overbroad terms, as a predicate for a proceeding to deny a firearms permit,” ACLU legislative leaders wrote, saying reliance on the lists “would open the door to arbitrary and discriminatory government action.”