Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, during an interview on MSNBC on June 16, said: “Al-Qaida operatives, have said, ‘Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.’ ”
Booker said, “Al-Qaida operatives, have said, ‘Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.”
We’ve seen a 2011 video from one operative, an Al-Qaida spokesman born and raised in America, who did indeed urge Muslim to use the gun show to loophole to purchase weapons at attack Americans. While an expert said its reasonable that other pieces of propaganda exist, we don’t know of any.
With that caveat, we rate the claim as Mostly True.
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