NEW YORK - June 20, 2009 - New Jersey Democrat Senator Frank R. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation this coming week, designed to cancel the Second Amendment protections of well over a million U.S. citizens, according to The New York Times. “Mr. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation on Monday that would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales to people on terror watch lists,” the newspaper reports.

NEW YORK - June 20, 2009 - New Jersey Democrat Senator Frank R. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation this coming week, designed to cancel the Second Amendment protections of well over a million U.S. citizens, according to The New York Times. “Mr. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation on Monday that would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales to people on terror watch lists,” the newspaper reports.

Lautenberg is a notorious gun-grabber. He introduced a similar measure in 2007.

Lautenberg’s action comes in the wake of statistics compiled by the Government Accountability Office drawing attention to an “odd divergence” in federal law that allows erroneously designated terrorists to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms but prevents them from getting on a plane or getting a visa.

The Inspector General of the InJustice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center - the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States - had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month, according to the ACLU. In March of this year the list hit the one million mark, a 32% increase from 2007.

The actual number may far exceed one million entries. The FBI says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified. In addition to the National Counterterrorism Center watch list, the FBI keeps a list of persons said to be domestic terrorists, according to ABC News.

Ed. Note: Yet we know the majority of people on the terror watch list are there by mistake, and with the ever-looser definition of "terrorist" (public protesters, for example) almost anyone can wind up on that list without having done anything illegal.