Posted February 19, 2018 9:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

The Toomey half of 2013’s failed Manchin-Toomey background check bill is shopping for supporters to assist in another try (Photo: Sen. Toomey’s office)
Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is reportedly working towards rebooting his failed bipartisan bill to expand background checks to all gun sales.
The day after a high-profile school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Toomey took to social media to say he was “committed to improving our federal background check system” and that he was reaching out to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to “see where progress can be made.”
Two days later, Toomey’s Pennsylvania state director, Robert DeSousa, told those at a chamber of commerce legislative breakfast in Lewisburg that the lawmaker was ready to reintroduce his past, failed background check expansion.
First floated in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Toomey joined with West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin to back an amendment to Harry Reid’s Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act which would have expanded background checks to include private gun sales and transfers. With gun rights groups opposed and few members of the GOP ready to defect and support the measure, it tanked 54-46, needing 60 votes to pass.
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Source: Guns.com

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