Senate shoots down all gun control proposals

In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, Toomey’s Democratic challenger, called for new leadership after Toomey voted for the NRA-backed amendments.

The Republican from ME has been working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle on the emerging proposal to bar firearms from being sold to individuals on what are known as the “Selectee” and “No Fly” lists, rather than the considerably larger “Consolidated Terror Watchlist”. Republican Senators Johnny Isakson and David Perdue also voted for the GOP measures. It was defeated, 44-56.

Republicans wanted a judicial review process to prevent someone on the terror watch list from buying a gun, following a 72-hour delay for anyone on the no-fly or watch lists.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s amendment was the first to be rejected in a 53-47 vote. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Sen. Another measure, proposed by Senator Chris Murphy, Senator Cory Booker, and Senator Chuck Schumer, hoped to tackle the “background check loophole”: the fact that guns sold online and at gun shows do not require the buyer to undergo a background check.

Moments before the post, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said his boss was “profoundly frustrated” with the lack of congressional action after the deadliest mass shooting in usa history and blasted Senate Republicans as “cowards”. Charles Schumer, D-NY, in a statement after the votes.

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Democrats called the Republican proposals weak and Republicans said the Democratic plans were too restrictive.

The Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, accused Democrats of “using this as an opportunity to push a partisan agenda or craft the next 30-second campaign ad”.

As the parties remain largely locked in their positions, polls show Americans are increasingly in favor of more restrictions on guns in a country with more than 310 million weapons, about one for every citizen.

“I have been so angry that this Congress has mustered absolutely no response to mass shooting after mass shooting, in city after city that is plagued by gun violence”, Murphy said before Monday’s vote.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch told “Fox News Sunday” that she also supported Cornyn’s proposal.

Under Collins’ proposal, Americans denied guns could appeal their rejections to federal courts.

“The American people deserve for us to take the greatest amount of time”, Lynch said.

Eight days after Orlando’s mass shooting horror intensified pressure on lawmakers to act, a divided Senate hurtled Monday toward an election-year showdown over curbing guns that seemed likely to produce a familiar result: gridlock.

The Feinstein and Cornyn amendments would require notification of law enforcement officials if people, like Mateen, who’d been under a terrorism investigation within the past five years were seeking to buy firearms.