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"The bipartisan effort to expand background checks will not have the votes to advance in the Senate today, according to one of the architects of the deal.
"We will not get the votes today," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told NBC News.
Potential supporters, Republican Sens. Jeff Flake, of Arizona, and Florida’s Marco Rubio, could not risk a stand on background checks in the face of opposition from their conservative base because they are already leading on immigration, Manchin said."
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/nation...ote-Background-Check-Amendment—203365291.html
Can somebody explain to me what seems to be the problem? I thought that expanded background checks were a common sense way of preventing guns falling into the hands of the more disturbed individuals. But, apparently, some folks have problem even with that?
"We will not get the votes today," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told NBC News.
Potential supporters, Republican Sens. Jeff Flake, of Arizona, and Florida’s Marco Rubio, could not risk a stand on background checks in the face of opposition from their conservative base because they are already leading on immigration, Manchin said."
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/nation...ote-Background-Check-Amendment—203365291.html
Can somebody explain to me what seems to be the problem? I thought that expanded background checks were a common sense way of preventing guns falling into the hands of the more disturbed individuals. But, apparently, some folks have problem even with that?
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