The New York Times’ editorial board said Thursday that the National Rifle Association is complicit in acts of terror because it objects to legislation that would bar suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.

But the legislation that would block certain people from buying firearms would be based on data collected under the federal government’s terrorist watch list, a secretive database established in 2003 by the Bush administration. And the Times has previously said the terror watch list has been used for extremely shady things, most notably the so-called “no-fly list.”