Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick advocated for stronger gun background checks in sales between strangers, saying he’s “willing to take an arrow” and go against the National Rifle Association (NRA) to do so.
Patrick, in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, said Friday that “not expanding the background check to eliminate the stranger to stranger sale makes no sense to me and … most folks.”
Patrick still opposes background checks for gun sales among family members and friends, he said in the interview. Calls for stronger gun laws have, once again, become part of the national discourse after recent high-profile mass shootings in the U.S., including in El Paso, Dayton and Odessa.
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