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WASHINGTON – At a bipartisan White House meeting on gun violence Wednesday, President Donald Trump pressed Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and other lawmakers to come together and create “one great piece of legislation” to address background checks on gun sales, in addition to other measures.
The meeting was held in the wake of another national reckoning on gun violence following the mass shooting of a South Florida high school on Feb. 14. Seated next to the president, Cornyn said it was “unacceptable” for lawmakers to leave Washington “empty-handed.”
“The public demands that we act,” Cornyn said. “In the past, we’ve acquiesced to failure and have not done things we know were within our power to accomplish.”
Cornyn, alongside U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, has been pushing for a vote on his “Fix NICS” bill, which would hold government agencies accountable if they fail to upload individuals’ criminal histories to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Forty-six senators have signed on to co-sponsor the bill, including 10 this week.
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