Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. promised on Thursday that the Senate would vote on the 2021 Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which passed the House on Thursday in a 227-203 vote. .
An earlier version of the HR 8 bill, which would require background checks for all purchases of U.S. firearms, passed the House in 2019, but did not receive 60 votes in the Senate to release the obstruction.
“In the past, when they sent it to us the last time, it was for [fomer Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s legislative graveyard, “said Schumer during a news conference on Thursday.” The legislative cemetery is over. HR 8 will be on the Senate floor and we will see everyone’s position. There are no more hopes and prayers, thoughts and prayers. A vote is what we need, a vote, not thoughts and prayers. “
Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
Representative Mike Thompson, D-Calif., And 131 co-sponsors reintroduced HR 8 on March 2.
“Certainly hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of people walking on the streets today because we are [the 1994 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act] he would be dead, “said Schumer, author of the Brady Act, which requires background checks on all US firearm buyers during the briefing.
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He continued: “But when we passed the law, we barely knew, there were some gaps that we didn’t know at the time. We didn’t know that there would be an internet, so we didn’t prohibit internet sales without a background check.”
The provision popularly known as the “Charleston breach” after the 2015 Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, gives federal firearm licensees the option to proceed with the firearm transfer if the background check is not completed in three business days.
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The sniper in the 2015 massacre, a white supremacist named Dylann Roof, obtained his firearm as a result of the provision. HR 8 would address the rule by expanding the background check rules before an FFL can transfer a firearm to a person who is not licensed.
The NRA Institute for Legislative action calls for the provision of a “necessary component of our current background check system”, while more progressive organizations like the Center for American Progress say it allows unstable Americans to “escape the law and buy weapons” .
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Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Called the NRA “a shell of itself” during Thursday’s briefing, in which he discussed the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook School, which killed 26 people, including 20 kids.
The Biden government said on Monday that it “expects” to work with Congress to strengthen the federal firearms background check system and to implement “common sense” measures to reduce armed violence, urging the House to approve two measures that would “close existing loopholes” in the system.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.