"Bipartisan Senate Proposal on Gun Control Includes Expanded Background Checks" PBS Newshour 4/10/2013
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SUMMARY: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., outlined a bipartisan deal on gun background checks. Judy Woodruff talks to Paul Barrett, author of "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun," and Delbert McFadden of the Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative about the impact of gun violence on inner city communities.
JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): We turn to the other big political story of this day, gun control legislation, and a new proposal for expanding background checks.
The president said in a statement late today the plan unveiled by a pair of senators didn't go as far as he wanted, but he welcomed it as significant progress. Other gun control groups said they too hoped it could serve as a tipping point in the Senate.
SEN. JOE MANCHIN, D-W.Va.: Good morning.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The bipartisan deal was announced by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Manchin said the December school shootings in Newtown, Conn., demanded a response.
JOE MANCHIN: This amendment won't ease the pain. It will not ease the pain of the families who lost their children on that horrible day. But nobody here, and I mean not one of us in this great, great Capitol of ours, with a good conscience could sit by and not try to prevent a day like that from happening again. And I think that's what we're doing.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Under the proposal, federal background checks would be expanded to include gun show and online sales. All such sales would have to be channeled through licensed firearms dealers, who'd be charged with keeping records of the transactions.
But in a major difference from the president's proposal, the senators' plan wouldn't require background checks for private sales between individuals.
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