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Source CNN Politics: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/senate-gun-votes-congress/index.html
The proposal, sponsored by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, failed to get the 60 votes for passage. The vote was 53-47, largely along party lines. Some Senate Democrats warned that the legislation's revised definition of who would be considered mentally ill could potentially still allow those with significant psychological issues to legally purchase guns.
A second proposal to expand the background check system for those buying guns to require checks at gun shows and for online purchases went down 44-56. Murphy, the Democrat who launched a nearly 15-hour filibuster last week to press for new gun restrictions after the Orlando massacre where 49 people were killed, sponsored the proposal.
A Republican proposal to delay gun sales to individuals included on a government terror watch list failed in a mostly party-line vote of 53-47. The measure was sponsored by Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn. The bill would allow a judge to permanently block a purchase if the court determined probable cause that the individual is involved in terrorist activity.
And a Democratic option that sought to bar all gun sales to those individuals on the terror watch list failed 47-53, the second time the proposal went down to defeat after a mass shooting. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein originally pushed the proposal in December after a shooting in San Bernardino, and revived it after the horrific Orlando nightclub shooting by a gunman who pledged allegiance to the terror group ISIS.
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TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Wasn't on any watch list, so that law wouldn't have mattered. Not sure about the San Bernardino shooters, but I believe their weapons were purchased by a straw man, so wouldn't have caught them anyway.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)A mass shooting happens and then there are calls for gun control. But none of the proposals made would have prevented the shooting that sparked the debate.
That's been the problem with American politics for decades. Laws, even when they are passed, NEVER fix the problem.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)As far as I could tell
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Fuck the NRA.
Enough is enough.