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Common sense to give the fbi the authority to keep terror suspects from buying guns and explosives. let me close by saying something about the second amendment: our founding fathers did not write the second amendment to empower people who wanted to terrorize a free state. they wrote to it protect people who could defend the security of a free state. today, the security of our free state is being tested by terrorists. and i urge you to take a common-sense steps in the law to strengthen law enforcement, including closing the terror gap, and to protect the american people from more attacks. >> tw...

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Attempt. new york city mayor michael bloomberg and new york commissioner ray kelly are testifying. democratic senator frank lautenberg introduced legislation, what he calls, the terror gap. thank you for joining us today. >> pleased to be here. >> for people at home that don't know what the terror gap is, explain that to them? >> there is a way that someone who is on the terror watch history -- these are people we ought to be careful about, can get a gun. right now it's just an open thing. there is a check that goes on, routine. guns are given. we had over 1200 applications from people who wer...