Mayor Michael Bloomberg Archives - The Truth About Guns

Yesterday, about a billion posts ago, we reported that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to create a new gun control law: Concealing While Intoxicated (CWI). But we were more interested in his unspecified promise to streamline the process of applying for and (theoretically) receiving a permit to carry a concealed weapon in The City That Never Sleeps. TTAG promised to keep an eye out for the details of that deal. (In the Land of the Blind . . .) The New York Times reports that “One change outlined on Friday is geared toward transparency by having the police ‘offer more detailed examples of eligibility standards for a permit, and make the additional examples available both in print and online,’ according to a news release from the mayor’s office.” Thanks for the link guys. Not. Other changes include . . .

Mayor Michael Bloomberg—he of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns and their parellel “Close the Gun Show Loophole” strap-line— is addressing a hearing of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on “Terrorists and Guns: The Nature of the Threat and Proposed Reforms.” Here are Hizzoner’s opening remarks. We would remind you that feds have admitted that the FBI have placed up to a million people on the Terrorist Watch List in error, without a chance to review the selection criteria. Meanwhile, welcome to “Close the Terror Gap.” Dot org.

Today, the Government Accountability Office has released new data showing that suspects on the terrorism watch lists were able to buy guns and explosives from licensed U.S. dealers 1,119 times between 2004 and 2010. That is a serious and dangerous breach of national security — and it raises a very basic question:

When gun dealers run background checks, should F.B.I. agents have the authority to block sales of guns and explosives to those on the terror watch lists – and deemed to dangerous to fly?

I believe strongly that they should. And so do the 500 mayors who are part of our bipartisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. But right now, they don’t. As Senator Lautenberg and Congressman King have just said, it is time to close this “terror gap” in our gun laws.

Here’s How New York City Plans to “Streamline” Concealed Carry Regs

Mayor Bloomberg: “Close the Terror Gap”

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