Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 23, 2015. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) today announced she will introduce the House companion to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) common-sense legislation to prevent foreign nationals who have not been fully vetted by our intelligence community from purchasing firearms while they are in the United States by closing a loophole in the Visa Waiver Program. Normally, visiting foreign nationals traveling with visas to the United States are prohibited from buying or possessing firearms, but travelers from one of 38 countries admitted to the Visa Waiver Program are excluded from this sensible public safety requirement through a legal technicality—even though terrorists including a 9/11 co-conspirator and “shoe-bomber” Richard Reid entered the country using the program.
