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Bloomberg ‘Terror Gap’ Argument Shot Down By Pro-Gun GOP Senators

05/05/2010 2:51 pm 0 comments

Source: The Huffington Post

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s appeal to what he called “common sense” at a congressional hearing Wednesday morning failed to sway two Republican senators who said that giving the government the ability to block the purchase of guns by suspected terrorists would undermine the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.

“Shouldn’t FBI agents have the authority to block sales of guns and explosives to those on the terror watchlists — and deemed too dangerous to fly? I actually believe that they should,” Bloomberg told senators. Federal law currently only allows the government to block guns sales for a very limited number of reasons, and being on that list is not one of them. (For more background, see Tuesday’s article on the subject.)

“This common-sense legislation is not anti-gun — it’s anti-terrorist,” chimed in Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), the sponsor of a bill that would close what Bloomberg has called a “terror gap.”

But GOP Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsay Graham of South Carolina wouldn’t go along.

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