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“Thousands Wrongly Listed on Terror Watch List”—Newsday “U.S. to Block Gun Buyers Tied To Terror”—New York Times Those two headlines tell the story of deep media duplicity. When it comes to well-placed fears over widespread errors, civil liberties abuses and injustices involving tens of thousands of innocent Americans whose names have been indelibly added to huge federal “terror watchlists,” the mainstream media is on the job, on point. Their concern is well-founded. Yet that concern evaporates when the Washington-based media enthusiastically reports those very same lists will be used to bar suspected “terrorists” from buying guns under legislation introduced by...

S 1237 IS 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1237 To increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses to known or suspected dangerous terrorists. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 26, 2007 Mr. LAUTENBERG introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses to known or suspected dangerous terrorists. Be it enacted...

The relationship between the Bush administration and the pro-Second Amendment community has been lukewarm, at best... *snip* At issue is whether this or future administrations would have the statutory power to deny the sale of a firearm to a person otherwise lawfully entitled to buy a gun, based on mere suspicion the prospective purchaser is somehow connected with acts of international or domestic "terrorism." At first blush, this might seem a no-brainer; with common sense telling us "of course we don't want terrorists being able to purchase firearms." The Senate sponsor of the administration proposal, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank...

BELLEVUE, WA – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer, the Second Amendment Foundation said today. The bill, S. 1237, was introduced last week at the Justice Department’s request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress. Called the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007,” this legislation would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the...