USA Today Find Real Gun Buying Issue

While New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others note the trouble with straw buyers and illegal firearms, there is a much larger threat, one cited by USA Today this week. The paper offered this ominous take, given that this is one of the busiest travel weeks of the year:

“In another terrorism case today, the FBI says it has charged five Lebanese men over an attempt to buy 100 shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and 10,000 machine gun destined for Syria or Iran.”

This may sound like an everyday occurrence in war torn Africa, but it happened here in the United States:

“Dani Nemr Tarraf, a resident of Trnava, Slovakia, was arrested Saturday in Philadelphia.”

So what is the real threat? Law abiding gun owners who go to gun shows, or terrorists trying to obtain weapons that could take out a plane?