Democrats’ first piece of major firearm legislation in the new Congress likely to face intense opposition in the Senate and from the White House
U.S. Democratic Congressman Mike Thompson of California speaks alongside former representative Gabby Giffords and other lawmakers regarding the need for gun-control legislation outside the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 26, 2019.The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would expand background checks for gun sales to include firearm purchases at gun shows and over the internet, a measure likely to face Senate and White House opposition.
The bill is likely to face opposition when it goes to the Republican-controlled Senate, however. It would also need President Donald Trump’s signature in order to become law.The White House said on Monday that Trump’s advisers would recommend the president veto the legislation because it would apply “burdensome requirements” that are “incompatible with the Second Amendment’s guarantee of an individual right to keep arms.
“The carnage that we’ve seen perpetrated by gun violence over the last decade has heightened the American people’s concern, and the bill that we’re putting on the floor we believe has the support of 90 percent of the American people,” Hoyer said.
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