The legal rifle can be bought all over the Bay State with the proper background checks. He had purchased both legally. President Barack Obama spoke out in favor of increased gun control. “But as we look at how to proceed, we also want to make sure that we’re not infringing upon people’s legitimate constitutional rights”.
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“I do not believe this was some random act of violence”, McConnell said.
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose proposal would allow the USA attorney general to stop any terrorist suspect from acquiring a gun, told reporters the gun control votes would likely be held on Tuesday. The presumptive GOP nominee said he would discuss the issue with gun rights activists.
“This shooting happened in a gun-free zone”.
But the group acknowledged Wednesday they would be “happy to meet” with the Republican flagbearer.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the Port St. Lucie Shooting Center following the incident. Rep. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores, circulated a bill this week that would prohibit those on the Federal Bureau of Investigation watch list from purchasing a firearm.
According to a study by Quinnipiac University, 93 percent of Americans support gun background checks, and most also want a ban on assault weapons.
“We have three days to try to work this out”. “So, nobody can go into a store and purchase the same gun that mowed down and killed innocent people in our city”, he said. Given that the shooter claimed allegiance to ISIS in a 9-1-1 call during the massacre and that the group has claimed responsibility – though the actual ties between it and Omar Mateen are not yet proven – this is an apparent act of radical Islamic terrorism. They pointed the finger at Republicans for their failure to take action on gun control. There are just too darned many guns to even think of that, which I suppose is the NRA vision of Utopia. “If you’re too risky to get on a plane, you’re too unsafe to buy a gun”.
“And if the bullets were going in the other direction, aimed at this guy, who was just open target practice, you would have had a situation folks, which would have been always disgusting, but nothing like the carnage that we all as a people suffered this weekend”.
“These types of weapons, without a doubt, should be banned”, Sanders said Tuesday on Twitter. “We have no idea who the hell they are”.
[Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images]”I just came from a meeting today in the Situation Room in which I got people who we know have been on ISIL Web sites, living here in the United States, U.S. citizens, and we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle Association, I can not prohibit those people from buying a gun”, President Obama said.
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Trump has accused Clinton of wanting to abolish the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects the right to “keep and bear arms”.
