If we can all agree that criminals and those adjudicated as mentally ill should not buy firearms, why should we not try to plug the loopholes in the law that allow them to buy guns without background checks?

The bill I introduced last week against gun trafficking will similarly prove helpful and I believe will become an accepted part of our crime control framework.

Lives are at risk when responsible people fail to stand up for laws that will keep guns out of the hands of those who will use them to commit murder, especially mass murder.

No one can take away those rights or their guns. Second Amendment rights are the foundation on which our discussion rests.

I just do not think that law-abiding people want every gun sale in the country to be under the thumb of the Federal Government.

I am so grateful to you and to her for the public service that you have offered in the last year under difficult circumstances.

under it there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence.

I hope we will have a follow-on hearing where we will ask administration witnesses to come before the panel and to testify why the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies of the Federal Government are not enforcing laws…

I have cosponsored a bill to require background checks at gun shows.

Tomorrow I will introduce the Mental Health in Schools Act which will improve access to mental health care for kids.

the assault weapons ban was singularly ineffective.