claim: "you can’t get on an airplane, but more than 2,000 people on that list have been able to buy a gun."
author: john garamendi
evidence_1: dec 11, 2015 ... according to an fbi fact sheet, 420000 people were on the no-fly list in 2011. ...  complaints are valid, but i don't see how else you can have a terrorist watch list ...  no-fly list only when they arrive at an airport and are told they can't fly. ... more  than 2,000 people on the terrorist watch list were able to buy guns ...
evidence_2: "you can't get on an airplane, but more than 2,000 people on that list have been  able to buy a gun." — politifact california on friday, june 24th, 2016.
evidence_3: dec 3, 2015 ... they “can't get on planes, but those same people who we don't allow ... we need  the support of congress in order to move forward with this ... on the terrorist  watchlist shouldn't be able to buy guns,” murphy said in a statement to  newsweek. ... more than 47,000 people were on the no-fly list in august 2013, ...
evidence_4: dec 7, 2015 ... but serious flaws in the list have been identified. ... office data that show more  than 2,000 people on the list bought firearms from 2004 to 2014, ...
evidence_5: the no fly list is a list created and maintained by the united states federal  government's terrorist screening center (tsc) of people who are prohibited  from boarding commercial aircraft for travel within, into, or out of the united states . the list has also been used to divert aircraft away from u.s. airspace that ... the  no fly list is different from the terrorist watch list, a much longer list of ...