It will have no effect on law-abiding gun owners in Maine or anywhere else. This has nothing to do with those individuals.

I thank the Senator. I think it is really important that we have the diversity of our caucus represented as part of this discussion today. Senator King and Senator Donnelly are both strong supporters of the Second Amendment. I am glad to…

That is correct. It is only controversial here; it is not controversial out in the American public. By and large, they want this done. So we have created a controversy that doesn't really exist in the living rooms and social halls of this…

I don't think there would have been any question that category would have been included. That is probably why 80 percent of Americans support the adoption of this amendment or some version of it.

That is exactly right. And I think my colleague very smartly referred back to the initiation of the background check system, where no one was contemplating a terrorist watch list or a no-fly list existing. It is the same thing with…

There is no model for it. We have hamstrung the FBI and the Attorney General by asking them to do more and more with the same amount of resources. To ask them to go through dozens and dozens of court processes--remember, there were 240…

I thank the Senator for that question. I talked to Senator Manchin about this earlier today. Much of the concern that I hear from individuals is that it is somehow a slippery slope that eventually leads to the government confiscating…

I thank the Senator. My friend from Massachusetts was so eloquent earlier on the floor, and I yield to Senator Markey for a question without losing my right to the floor.

That is correct. I am still waiting for one of our Republican colleagues to come to the floor and suggest that the individuals on the no-fly list have their right to fly restored, because if you are so worried about the wrong people being…

And it was not. As we stated, this system worked for a very long time until all of these gun sales migrated out of the system. But we have plenty of examples in which we have passed sensible commonsense gun laws that didn't lead to all of…

I did. We hear it constantly, which is this belief that there is a secret agenda, that this is really about a slippery slope to gun confiscation. As the Senator stated very eloquently in his remarks, there is a Second Amendment, and there…

Well, it is not surprising to me, would be my answer. I think, as the Senator knows, the marketing techniques of the companies that sell these guns are very disturbing. They often are marketing these guns in a way that would suggest that…

There is not, Senator Blumenthal, through the Chair. That is the reason we posited these two proposals as a means forward on this bill. We know they are noncontroversial in the American public. They enjoy broad bipartisan support. I yield…

First of all, let me say that it doesn't surprise me because we know the level of carnage that entered that emergency room. But I think it should pain everyone to look at that pair of shoes, look at the blood splattered on them, think of…

I yield to the Senator from Massachusetts for a question, through the Chair, without losing my right to the floor.

The Senator from Pennsylvania is on the floor with an incredibly important and tragically on-point piece of legislation. I yield to the Senator from Pennsylvania for a question without losing my right to the floor.

I yield to the Senator from Pennsylvania without losing my right to the floor.

I thank the Senator. At this point, I yield to the Senator from Connecticut for a question without losing my right to the floor.

I yield to the Senator from Connecticut for a question without losing my right to the floor.

I yield to the Senator from West Virginia for a question without losing my right to the floor.

It doesn't take courage to stand her on the floor of the United States Senate for two hours or six hours or 14 hours, doesn't take courage to stand up to the gun lobby when 90 percent of your constituents want change to happen. It takes…

I thank my friend for the question, and I thank him for standing, quite literally, with me every second of these last 13-plus hours. I thank my friend from Connecticut as well, who is about to speak, for doing the same. It is nice to have…

I thank the Senator for this question, which is at the center of this moment. This can't just be about the 30- some odd Senators who have taken to the floor over the last 12 hours. And by the way, we have now been on the floor for over 12…

I thank my colleague from New York, and through the Chair, I yield for a question from the Senator from Minnesota without losing my right to the floor.

I thank the Senator for his question. I will just remind him and others that this concept of the Second Amendment that my friend has offered is embedded in the Heller decision. The Heller decision itself--and Senator King chided me for…