WASHINGTON -- In a phone call with President Donald Trump about gun safety legislation last week, Sen. Joe Manchin made an unusual offer: If Trump signed onto a background check bill that he and Sen. Pat Toomey have been pushing for six years, the president could claim the naming rights for himself.&
WASHINGTON — In a phone call with President Donald Trump about gun safety legislation last week, Sen. Joe Manchin made an unusual offer: If Trump signed onto a background check bill that he and Sen. Pat Toomey have been pushing for six years, the president could claim the naming rights for himself.
Toomey, R-Pa., appealed to “inherent logic,” he said, making the case “on the merits” of using backgrounds checks to keep guns from criminals during a string of conversations with the president, most recently at the White House on Thursday. Story continuesGun safety has long been one of the most intractable issues in Washington, but it catapulted to the forefront of the congressional agenda after a series of mass shootings over the summer. Democrats immediately demanded the Republican-controlled Senate pass a bill that had already moved through the House and would require all gun buyers undergo background checks. But that bill remains stuck in the Senate, where Sen.
Collins, who said she has been in frequent contact with the president’s advisers though not Trump himself, said he is convinced that “there are a lot of responsible, common sense gun safety provisions that could be bundled together that we could pass.” Earlier this week, Attorney General William Barr circulated a proposal on Capitol Hill designed to address those objections. The plan would create a new class of “licensed transfer agents” who would not sell guns, but would be authorized by the government to conduct background checks. And sellers, not firearms dealers or transfer agents, would retain the records, so they could not be used to create a registry.
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