But you agree, do you not, Madam Attorney General, that if the law in fact said the background check has to be completed and the transfer approved we would reduce the likelihood that people who are ineligible, 16,000 in that 4-year period, from purchasing firearms, correct?
Cicilline questions the need for completed background checks to prevent illegal firearm purchases.
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We should be talking about how we support the ATF and enable it to do its job, but today again we are here to attack the ATF and to try to even abolish it.
Congress certainly has the authority to do that and I think that's one of the key issues for this Committee and the Congress to consider.
So, people are taking legally purchased pistols, adding these devices marketed as stabilizing braces but which are actually shoulder stocks and changing the character of the gun, transforming it into an unregistered short-barreled rifle.
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