{"id":98766,"date":"2019-01-10T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=98766"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:09:30","slug":"%ef%bb%bfgillibrand-joins-40-senate-colleagues-to-reintroduce-legislation-to-expand-background-checks-reduce-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=98766","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffGillibrand joins 40 Senate colleagues to reintroduce legislation to expand background checks, reduce gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Senator
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined 40 of her Senate colleagues today to reintroduce the\u00a0Background Check Expansion Act, legislation to expand federal background checks to all gun sales. Under current law, not all gun sellers are required to conduct a background check prior to transferring a firearm and as many as a quarter of all gun sales in the United States may occur without a background check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This legislation would require unlicensed and private\nsellers to conduct background checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGun violence is destroying families and tearing apart\ncommunities all over our country on a daily basis, yet Congress continues to\nsit on its hands and do nothing to stop this crisis,\u201d Gillibrand said. \u201cWe must\nsolve this problem now. One of the most effective ways to help stop gun\nviolence is to ensure that dangerous and violent people don\u2019t get their hands\non these weapons in the first place, and that\u2019s why 97 percent of Americans\nsupport universal background checks. This is an easy and commonsense solution\nto a problem that affects all of us. I am proud to join my colleagues in\nreintroducing this urgently needed bill to the Senate, and I urge my colleagues\nto move quickly to pass it into law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This legislation would require background checks\nfor the sale or transfer of all firearms, including unlicensed sellers who sell\nonline, at gun shows or from their home. The exceptions to the Background\nCheck Expansion Act include transfers between law enforcement officers,\ntemporarily loaning firearms for hunting or sporting events, providing firearms\nas gifts to immediate family members, transferring a firearm as part of an\ninheritance, or temporarily transferring a firearm for immediate self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In addition to Gillibrand, the Background Check\nExpansion Act is cosponsored by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Chuck\nSchumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Catherine Cortez\nMasto (D-NV), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR),\nJack Reed (D-RI), Tom Carper (D-DE), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bernie Sanders (I-VT),\nBob Casey (D-PA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tom Udall (D-NM), Michael Bennet\n(D-CO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM),\nElizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy\nDuckworth (D-IL), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Chris Coons\n(D-DE), Tina Smith (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Mark\nWarner (D-VA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Brian Schatz\n(D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Patrick Leahy (D-VT),\nTimothy Kaine (D-VA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jeff Merkley\n(D-OR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined 40 of her Senate colleagues today to reintroduce the\u00a0Background Check Expansion Act, legislation to expand federal background checks to all gun sales. Under current law, not all gun sellers are required to conduct a background check prior to transferring a firearm and as many as a quarter of all gun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}