Having failed miserably to reduce the Second Amendment to an endangered species, the gun grabbers are busily working on a new angle – making sure Americans on government terror watch lists cannot purchase firearms.
Following the failure of Manchin-Toomey in the Senate and the attack in Boston last month, the anti-Second Amendment activist and New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney has led the charge. Appearing on MSNBC earlier this week, Maloney claimed gun laws would have prevented the Boston terror attack despite the fact explosives were used in the attack.
“As it stands right now, Tamerlan, as we know now, was on the terrorist watch list, so we know a gun check would stop him, if there was a background check,” she said. Maloney went on to say that gun shows are used by terrorists to buy firearms with “no questions asked.”
The Democrat failed to note that the alleged Boston bombers, according to media reports, did not have government gun permits and probably acquired their weapon — allegedly a 9 mm Ruger handgun — through illegal means. However, although we were told Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was heavily armed, he did not have a gun when he was arrested following the Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts lockdown.
Prior to the Boston terror incident, the veteran gun grabber, Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, introduced a bill he claimed would close the “terror gap” by not allowing suspected terrorists to purchase or own firearms. The bill was sidelined in 2007 due to pressure by the NRA. Following the Boston bombings, the Democrat moved to reintroduce his bill.
“No matter what terror watch list the Boston bomber was on, our porous gun laws would have allowed him to walk into a store and legally buy guns and explosives,” Lautenberg said. “The NRA may disagree, but it’s time to put the safety of our families first, and we will keep up the fight to make this common-sense fix.”
The same year Lautenberg originally introduced his legislation, then Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who would later serve as Obama’s chief of staff, told attendees at the annual Stand Up for a Safe America sponsored by the Brady Center that Americans who are on the terror no-fly list should not be allowed to own a gun.
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