2nd Amendment In Crosshairs As Congress Returns From Recess

By Cam Edwards

Congress returns from its August recess today, and that means that the Senate will be taking up the issue of gun control in the immediate future. Well, maybe. Last week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he won’t bring a bill to the floor for a full vote unless he knows that the President will sign it. So what is President Trump pushing at the moment? According to Sen. Roy Blount (R-MO), Trump hasn’t committed to any specific piece of legislation… yet.

“The president needs to step up here and set some guidelines for what he would do,” Blunt said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “I’m afraid what’s going to happen here is what always happens, is we take this silly ‘if we don’t get everything, we won’t do anything.’”

We’ve heard President Trump talk about background checks and red flag laws over the past few weeks, though it’s unclear whether or not the President has been pushing for expanding background check requirements for private sales or pushing for expanded and expedited record submissions to NICS, the national instant background check system. In recent days Trump has backed off his calls for legislation …Read the Rest

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