Frank Lautenberg: “The Washington Post and the New York Times also editorialized against this dark-of-night assault just this past week.…”

“The Washington Post and the New York Times also editorialized against this dark-of-night assault just this past week. Hill Alert: A Bad Old Gun Bill We're down to the dangerous mad-dash time in Congress when truly bad ideas can sneak into law--and today the gun lobbyists are poised with a flood-the-market firearms scheme disguised as an innocent 'curios and relics' proposal. Once again, certain members of Congress who are semiautomatic hawkers of the National Rifle Association's line, linked with lobbyists for gun importers, are seeking to slip language into an appropriations bill that would allow an arsenal of some 2.5 million weapons from abroad to go on the U.S. market. This stockpile has made the rounds globally: The weapons were originally paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Then as U.S. Army surplus the firearms were given or sold to foreign governments years ago. But they are more than quaint relics for the walls of collectors; many of these firearms can be converted easily into illegal automatic weapons for domestic crimes such as holdups, assaults and murder. The weapons could pile into the U.S. market from supplies in the Philippines, Morocco, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Iran, and other countries.”