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On the recordApril 17, 2013
I appreciate my colleague's courtesy. I would ask my colleague this: Isn't it the case that the very background check proposed in Manchin-Toomey is the same one that has been used for 17 years for FFLs, for Federal firearm licensees? Isn't it the exact same one?
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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