"I'm shocked SHOCKED that terrorists are buying guns!"

Maybe FBI Director Robert Mueller was watching The Daily Show last week and saw Lewis Black's rant about why terrorists are buying guns legally --

Lewis Black, "Daily Show" commentator: "Thank God we live in a country where anyone can buy guns, and I mean anyone. A Congressional investigation revealed last year nearly 50 terror suspects on federal watch lists were legally allowed to purchase firearms. And as NRA president Wayne LaPierre told CBS, it's shameful, shameful that those suspects right to bear arms is being threatened."

Reporter [on tape]: "If it's good enough for the FBI to put them on a terrorist watch list, why isn't it good enough for the NRA to not sell them a gun?"

Wayne LaPierre, NRA president [on tape]: "Because what is a watch list?"

Black: "It's a list of suspected terrorists we're watching -- in this case, watching buy guns!"

[Transcript from ABC News - I'm looking for a video link because you really gotta see this clip.]

Now Director Mueller has written a letter to Senator Lautenberg calling for a re-evaluation of our nation's gun laws:

FBI Director Robert Mueller hinted at a shift in Bush Administration policy today in a letter to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), signaling his belief that gun control laws regulating background checks and the purchase of firearms deserve review, RAW STORY has learned.

"I believe a review of the law regarding the National Instant Criminal Background Check system is warranted given the findings of the GAO report," Mueller wrote.

Mueller's response is in seeming variance with Bush Administration policy, which largely opposes gun control.

"For the first time, a highranking member of the federal government is suggesting the Brady Gun Laws on the books today may need to be tightened," said Lautenberg spokesman Alex Formuzis. "This is a major shift in tone coming from the Bush administration that just a few months ago allowed the Assault Weapons Ban to expire and has done nothing to shut down the Gun Show Loophole. "

A Government Accountability study released in March found that dozens of terrorist suspects on federal watch lists have been allowed to buy firearms legally in U.S. because of holes in U.S. gun laws.

FBI officials told the New York Times at the time they were hampered by rules on privacy of gun owners; all but nine states allowed purchases because checks found no automatic disqualifications even though the buyers came up on classified internal FBI watch lists.

The Bush Administration had better be careful, or they might suffer an  outbreak of sanity.