Toomey says he hopes half of Senate Republicans will vote for potential gun deal
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), one of the lawmakers involved in the ongoing bipartisan gun negotiations, said the group has to “be realistic,” but he hopes at least half of his Republican colleagues in the Senate will vote for a potential deal if one ever arises.
Speaking with moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Toomey said he supports legislation he has sponsored that would expand background checks and encourage states to implement red-flag laws, which allow people to petition a court to temporarily confiscate firearms from owners considered risks to themselves or others.
Toomey is one of a handful of Senate Republicans involved in the bipartisan talks that began following a string of recent high-profile mass shootings at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y.
The group — which has met at least four times in recent days — has at times included Toomey and Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
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