Senate Republicans Vote To Allow Terrorists To Legally Buy Guns In The US

Senate Republicans Vote To Allow Terrorists To Legally Buy Guns In The US:



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Senate Republicans voted today to block a measure that would have prevented individuals on the terror watch list from legally buying guns in the United States.

Politico reported:

The first gun control measure proposed by Democrats was legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would deny people on a federal terrorism watch list the ability to purchase guns. The measure failed, 45-54. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) voted with Republicans to reject the measure, and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) crossed over to vote in favor of the gun restrictions.

The second vote revived legislation from April 2013, written in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Conn., with bipartisan backing that would enact universal background checks. The four Republicans who backed the bill then — Kirk and Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John McCain of Arizona and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who co-authored the measure with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — also voted in favor of the Democrats’ plan on Thursday. Heitkamp also opposed the second gun-control measure, which was blocked on a 48-50 tally.

Senate Republicans have now laughably put themselves on record as supporting the right of suspected terrorists to legally buy guns in the United States.