PolitiFact Sen. Cory Booker says al-Qaida has urged followers to use lax U.S. gun laws to kill Americans Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, said he couldn’t recall “any other videos as explicit about the ease of using guns in the United States on Islamists’ behalf. That said, I would be surprised if there isn’t other propaganda seeking to exploit the permissiveness of gun access in the U.S.”