Bill named after Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg puts background checks on bullets

WASHINGTON _ Last month, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a plan to expand background checks on gun purchases.

Now, Parkland parent Fred Guttenberg and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are offering a new plan to require universal background checks on ammunition purchases. The bill is named after Guttenberg's daughter Jaime, one of 17 students and staff killed on Valentine's Day last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

"We have a gun violence death rate in this country right now of approximately 40,000 per year. It is not normal," Guttenberg said. "In the time that we do this press conference, somebody will learn they are a victim of gun violence, somebody will be buried who is a victim of gun violence and somebody will be planning the funeral for a victim of gun violence. I am not OK with that."