Asa Hutchinson: “I think the best way to respond is to go through some of the facts. He indicated that we on this side have abandoned an…”

“I think the best way to respond is to go through some of the facts. He indicated that we on this side have abandoned an effort to seek a bipartisan solution, and that is quite the contrary. The only way anything is going to happen is through a bipartisan solution. I know that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), on the House side, is submitting some proposals out there in seeking a bipartisan solution to this. So we very much desire that because that is the only way it is going to work. Secondly, the minority leader, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), indicated that we should accept the Senate-passed gun provisions. Well, I might remind the gentleman from Missouri that those same provisions were defeated in this body. So what he is asking is that our conferees reject the will of this House. And I think that the will of this House has to carry some weight in the conference committee. If we go back as to what has happened, some very important things happened during the debate. First of all, in the House, and we debated this issue, at a vote of 395 to 27 we passed a juvenile Brady law, which prohibited juveniles convicted of an act of violent juvenile delinquency from possessing a firearm, a common sense gun restriction that is appropriate that people in this body supported in a bipartisan way, and it was passed.”