Senator Frank "she's to old to be Senator" Lautenberg, D-NJ, wants to impose strict limitations on a person's right to buy a firearm, and he's using 9-11 as an excuse. Even though not one single 9-11 hijacker used a firearm, Lautenberg wants to rewrite the procedure that dealers currently use when conducting a NICS background check, reports Fox News.

His bill would abolish the time limit any time the nation's threat level reaches yellow, or "elevated." Only after being dropped to the lowest level -- green, or "low" -- for 180 days would the three-day limit be reinstated.

Lautenberg knows full well that the national threat level will probably never be green for 180 straight days. In fact it has never dropped below level 3, much less all the way down to level 1.

The only way I would consider supporting this bill is if we used that special New Jersey calendar that the state supreme court used to allow Lautenberg to replace Torricelli on the 2002 NJ ballot. In case you don't remember, New Jersey law clearly prohibited ballot switches within 51 days of an election. Thirty days before the election, when it became clear that Torricelli was going to lose, the NJ supremes somehow 'interpreted' the deadline to be meaningless, even though many absentee ballots had already been submitted.

If Lautenberg is allowed to ignore deadlines, why aren't the rest of us?