Angie Craig: “I must ask him to return to page 7 of the bill, exception one and exception two: an action brought against a transferor…”

“I must ask him to return to page 7 of the bill, exception one and exception two: an action brought against a transferor convicted under section 924(h) of title 18, United States Code, or a comparable or identical State felony law, by a party directly harmed by the conduct of which the transferee is so convicted. . . . He is talking about criminal action. That action is deemed as a criminal act in the law. How about negligence? Well, it is the next one down. It is No. 2: an action brought against a seller for negligent entrustment or negligence per se. . . . Let me tell you what the FOP says. I think we all know what the FOP is. That is the Fraternal Order of Police, some 311,000 strong. They oppose the Corzine amendment. We have just visited with them. They called us and they said: Why? Because they do not believe it accomplishes what they would like accomplished, and they like the underlying law. I think it is fundamentally important that we try to build clean principles within the law.”