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Bill Would Ban Gun Sales to Terror Watch List

Reuters | March 11 2005

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House Democrat introduced legislation on Wednesday to ban terror suspects on the "No Fly List" from buying weapons, a day after a government report showed that at least 47 had been able to legally purchase firearms.

New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced legislation barring anyone included on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) No Fly List from purchasing firearms.

House of Representatives Republican leaders generally oppose gun control legislation, but in the Senate there have been some bipartisan efforts in the past.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg and several Democratic colleagues on Wednesday wrote to FBI director Robert Mueller asking for a meeting about what legislative fixes might be in order. The issue could emerge in the Senate in some form later this year.

The Government Accountability Office report Tuesday said people associated with terrorist groups had taken advantage of loopholes in U.S. gun laws that do not automatically bar a person belonging to such a group from buying a gun. It documented 44 attempts and 35 successful sales in five months of 2004, and another 12 sales later in the year.

"It is absurd that the very same people not allowed to board a commercial aircraft can walk into nearly any gun store in America and purchase a firearm," McCarthy said in a statement. "Our pre-9/11 gun background check laws are allowing our enemies in the war on terror to arm themselves within our borders."

The GAO, a nonpartisan investigative body of Congress, urged the FBI to "better manage" background checks for people wanting to buy gun, and Mueller told a congressional panel this week that changes to background check law might be needed.