We must also do more to cover people at a high risk from committing violence who are not currently prohibited from purchasing guns.
There is no constitutional impediment to passing life-saving gun laws.
The Charleston loophole threatens local communities by enabling guns to fall into the hands of dangerous people.
I implore you and your colleagues to pass legislation that will make us all safer by strengthening our nation's gun laws...
Congress should pass legislation incentivizing more states to pass these life saving laws and providing funds for implem...
Ninety percent of federal background checks take only a few minutes, but in thousands of cases three days is not enough ...
The only thing standing in the way of saving lives is a lack of political will.
I am grateful to Congresswoman Debbie Dingell for introducing H.R. 569, the Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2...
H.R. 8 will make it harder for dangerous people to get their hands on guns and hurt themselves or others.
We must invest in our collective future.
I am grateful to Congressman Mike Thompson and this Committee for prioritizing H.R. 8, the bipartisan Background Checks ...