Sens. John Cornyn and Chris Murphy hit impasse on gun background checks, end talks
Failure of talks leaves House bill in limbo as Murphy says he’ll seek other GOP partners to close gun show loophole.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, listens as U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a hearing to examine President Joe Biden s 2021 trade policy agenda. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times via AP, Pool)(Pete Marovich)
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Sen. John Cornyn’s effort to find common ground with gun control advocates on background checks ended Wednesday, with the Texas Republican and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., declaring they had hit an impasse.
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May gun sales nationally surged, in a time period directly after President Joe Biden promoted new gun control measures.
According to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System figures, in May 2021, there were over 3.2 million background checks conducted for the sale of a firearm. That s an increase of more than 130,000 background checks from May 2020.
That coincides with the Biden administration s gun control moves. In early April, the president announced a raft of gun control measures, which the Justice Department would issue as regulations within 60 days. Proposed rules pertained to “ghost guns,” in which individual parts bought are put together in a way that makes the composite firearm illegal, and model red-flag laws for states, which are aimed at preemptively seizing guns of individuals deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others.