The old fart now needs to convince 267 others in the House and Senate he has a good idea. Ain’t gonna happen.
Exactly, any congressman or senator can introduce a bill regarding anything, it means nothing. Dozens of bills are introduced every day, and the vast majority never even get put on the calendar for hearing. And even if by some miracle Lautenberg ever got his bill passed in the senate, it would never even be put on the calender to be voted on by the Republican house.
You notice though that the democrat leadership is silent on all this. I imagine Obama's folks are quietly telling democrats to shut up about gun control only three months before a major election (probably by promising he'll jump on the bandwagon if he wins reelection), they remember 1994 just like we do, and the last thing they want is to get the NRA folks all riled up right before an election. They've spent the last ten years trying to lull gun owners into a sense of security by pretending to be pro gun or at least neutral on the gun issue.