White House decries Senate ‘cowardice’ for rejecting gun control bills

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to schedule a vote for the measure, and one lawmaker said McConnell will “not be dictated to” by the NRA.

The amendment offered by Collins would ban everyone on the USA government’s No-Fly list from purchasing a firearm.

Under Collins’ proposal, Americans denied guns could appeal their rejections to federal courts. “All of us are united in our desire to getting something significant done on this vital issue”.

Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich, of New Mexico, who is supporting Collins, warned: “It’s very comfortable for us to sit in our respective corners and vote for something that we know isn’t going to change things”.

A moderate Republican senator sought broad bipartisan support Tuesday for a compromise to block gun purchases by some suspected terrorists, a day after the chamber split along party lines to derail far more sweeping proposals. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to investigate people on the terrorist watch list when they attempt to buy guns.

According to a statement from Tester’s Communications Director Marneé Banks, “Jon opposed this amendment because it would have blocked family members and neighbors from buying and selling guns to one another without a background check”.

This push comes after a series of four gun control measures were voted down in the Senate Monday night. A vote could be held as early as this week, Reuters reports. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who voted against Democratic proposals on Monday but signed on to Collins’ bill.

At the Tuesday press conference, Collins said that recent tragedies, such as the attack in Orlando, Florida, were “a call for compromise, a plea for bipartisan action”.

Now the question is, can Collins’ bill pass in its entirety?

After 15 hours, Republicans returned to the House floor to vote on an appropriations bill, over the objections of Democrats, and adjourned until July 5.

There are approximately 109,000 people on those lists.

But the proposal she supports faces opposition from lawmakers who say it could violate a citizen’s right to due process. “Let’s put it this way: If we can’t pass this, it truly is a broken system”.

Frequent efforts at gun control have failed despite anger at mass shootings like the killings at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 and in San Bernardino, California, last year. “But here’s the tiebreaker: We can fix the problem of the innocent person”.

“We need be a little braver, a little more comfortable, I think too, on saying, ‘Hey, I see suspicious behavior, ‘ without a fear of being called a bigot”, he said. “I applaud all of my colleagues who have taken what can only be a pretty terrifying-in-some-ways first step into trying to achieve bipartisan consensus on an issue that today is one of the most contentious issues”.

Now the issue goes to the campaign trail, where presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said that the solution to the Orlando slayings was to have more clubgoers carrying concealed guns so they could have shot “this son of a bitch”. It should be introduced to the Senate next week.