Fact Check: Hillary Clinton correct on Bernie Sanders' gun record [View all]

[RandySF]

In spring 1991, it was reintroduced and passed the House with a provision for potential gun buyers to wait seven days for background checks to be completed on potential gun buyers. Sanders, then a representative from Vermont, voted against it.

As debate continued, the waiting period was reduced to five days and the bill was lumped as a subsection within a more comprehensive public safety proposal. Sanders voted "no" two times on that version in fall 1991. It passed the House but failed in the Senate.

His fourth vote against the measure came in November 1993, when the bill was brought back, this time with the five-day waiting period.

Eventually, lawmakerscompromised and allowed the five-day wait on the condition that it be eliminated as soon as an effective instant background check system could be implemented. (The FBI launched one in 1998.)

Sanders' fifth vote against the Brady Bill's passage came later that month, but to no avail. The compromise version became law on Nov. 30, 1993.

Warren Gunnels, policy director for Sanders, told AZ Fact Check that Sanders supports several methods of gun control. "Senator Sanders has always supported the assault weapons ban, background checks, and closing the gun show loophole. That’s why he has a D-rating from the NRA," he wrote in an e-mail.

Clinton's campaign declined to comment.


BOTTOM LINE: Voting records show Clinton was correct in her statement that Sanders voted against the Brady Bill five times.


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