Chuck Schumer: “I am proud to come to the floor today to stand with my good friend and a great leader on this issue, Senator Martin…”

“I am proud to come to the floor today to stand with my good friend and a great leader on this issue, Senator Martin Heinrich, on a matter of life and death. A few days ago, the MAGA Supreme Court struck once again, reversing a ban on dangerous bump stocks like the one used in the Las Vegas shooting--the deadliest mass shooting ever committed by one person. Today, the Senate must step into the breach and pass a Federal ban on bump stocks, which Senator Heinrich has championed. I urge Republicans not to block this commonsense safety measure. Banning bump stocks should be the work of 5 minutes. It is an idea that even some conservative Senators have claimed to support in the past. One conservative colleague of mine on the Republican side said a while ago that if a bump stock ban ``actually gets on the Senator floor, I'd vote for it.'' The senior Senator from South Carolina also said: I think doing away with bump stocks, that's achievable. . . . I'm willing to get rid of that. Senate Republicans even supported Donald Trump when he, hardly a friend of gun safety, backed bump stocks after the Las Vegas shooting. If banning bump stocks was good enough for Republicans in the past, it should be good enough for them today. But if Republicans block this bill today after claiming to support bump stock bans in years past--a ban even President Trump supported when he was President--shame on them.…”