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In reply to the discussion: The most offensive position of the NRA [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)you are switched from one to the other? maybe?
the bold part is kind of a problem...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iUJuCX9KgMa-iu2foNsWBx3Sfvpw
"At a time when the threat of terrorism is still very real, as we in New York City know all too well, I think it is imperative that Congress close this terror gap in our gun laws, and close it quickly," he said.
Bloomberg made the appeal before a Senate committee considering a bill introduced in June 2009 that would ban sales of weapons to people on the FBI watch list.
Wednesday's hearing at the Senate had been planned before Saturday's attempted car bombing in New York, which was also the scene of the September 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center.
A Pakistani-American, Faisal Shahzad, 30, tracked down within hours of parking a bomb-laden car on Broadway has been charged in the plot.
Senator Joe Lieberman told the committee examining the bill: "Times Square should remind us of a reality that we tend to forget: Islamists attack."
"We are simply not doing all we can to stop terrorists from buying firearms," he warned.
Others like Republican Senator Lindsey Graham expressed reservations, warning that the bill infringed on the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms.
Bloomberg said he supported the bill, quoting figures from a US government report that said that from February 2004 to February 2010, 1,228 people listed on an FBI terror watchlist had tried to buy weapons. About 90 percent, some 1,119, had succeeded.