Attorney General Eric Holder supported closing the terror gap in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last ye...
We are holding this hearing today in the dispatch of our responsibility to inquire as to the impact passage of your legi...
An alert citizenry is one of the best defenses against terrorist attacks.
Senator Lautenberg, you have been a real leader on this.
I must say I am troubled by your concerns about this proposal because I think it is very limited.
I think you set a standard of leadership and competence.
Of course, it is true that even if the terror gap in our background check system were to be fixed, terror suspects and o...
It just seems to me that knowing that any action here can ultimately be brought to court by a defendant, that you would ...
I presume that if somebody who had risen to a high enough level of concern to be on the No Fly List comes in to buy a gu...
It is just common sense to give the FBI the authority to keep terror suspects from buying guns and explosives.
So presumably somebody on the No Fly List who came in to purchase a gun----
I think we have had a good airing of it here today.
I just want to draw attention to something you said, and we will come back to it because it really is important.
In other words, it was not legislatively mandated.
To what extent can one conclude that the purchase of a firearm by somebody who is a terrorism suspect and, therefore, on...
But what happens? I presume that some extra attention is paid to those people.
This is an extraordinarily limited law that is being proposed by Congressman King and others to say that somebody who is...
We simply cannot stop, no matter how hard we try, every attempt, and that is where the citizenry becomes 300 million plu...