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Bloomberg blasts Amtrak gun bill

A federal bill to allow guns in checked luggage on Amtrak trains took a beating from Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly and a host of mayors and lawmakers yesterday.

“If anyone in Congress thinks that the threat of a terrorist attack on a train has gone away, they are sadly mistaken,” Bloomberg said in Penn Station, where mayors from New Jersey joined him in imploring the House of Representatives to reject a measure the Senate passed on Wednesday.

“This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment right to bear arms and everything to do with keeping our country safe from terrorists,” Bloomberg continued.

Passengers were prohibited from bearing arms on Amtrak after 9/11, and the policy was tightened after the 2004 bombings in a Madrid train station.