Gun Debate Advances as Toomey Brokers Deal
In a bill co-sponsored by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, criminal and mental health background checks would be required for sales at gun shows and online.
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey (R) and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) co-sponsored an across-the-aisle bill Wednesday that expands background checks for gun buyers. "Criminal background checks are just common sense," Toomey said in a statement on his website. "If you pass a criminal background check, you can buy a gun. It's the people who fail a criminal or mental health background check that we don't want having guns. That can be done without infringing on law-abiding people's gun rights. And we ought to do it." According to USA Today, the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act would require criminal background checks for firearms purchased at gun shows and online and penalize states that do not add records of felons …
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James Kephart Jr.
1:52 pm on Friday, April 12, 2013
I disagree. I could come up with piles of gov't regulation that would save one life if we were willing to sacrifice some more of our freedoms. I would start with my favorite : you want to save lives, take away my right to drive my car faster than 90 mph. Very easy thing the government could do, yet nobody seems to approve of that. And that would actually save thousands of lives every year. Or how… more ›