Up In Arms II

Speaking of stupid laws (or loopholes) about guns, today's New York Times reports that dozens of terror suspects on federal watch lists were allowed to buy firearms legally in the U.S. last year, according to a Congressional investigation. Apparently, terror suspects aren't barred from buying guns--even if they have "clear links to terrorist groups."
I'm not talking about suspects buying guns on the black market. These people actually filled out the paperwork, registered and got approved by the government to buy a firearm. According to the GAO investigation, officials approved 47 of 58 gun applications from terror suspects over the nine-month period it surveyed last year.
So aging rocker Yusuf Islam, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, is barred from entering the U.S. because of suspected terror links. Even Canada's defense minister--whose innocuous and decidedly un-Arab sounding name is William Graham--is refused entry on a flight to the United States because someone else with his name apparently did something to get on an American watch list. (He wasn't allowed to board until he could prove that he was the other Bill Graham--the one in charge of the Canadian Forces.)
Yet suspects with known ties to terrorist groups are not only moving freely about the country, but they're armed!