The compromise gun control bill crafted by 10 Republicans and several Democratic colleagues is “more likely than not” to pass the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Republican senator said Tuesday. One of the authors of the proposal, Sen. Pat Toomey, says that it will “protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans while making our communities safer.”
Congress hasn’t done anything like this since the 1990s — if it passes both the Senate and the House.
The plan would fund school safety and trauma programs, while making background checks for buyers under 21 more rigorous and adding convicted domestic abusers and people under restraining orders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. It will aid states to create or enforce “red-flag” laws, which authorize removing guns from those who pose a risk to others or themselves.
