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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is promising quick action on the legislation - to strengthen background checks and to close the so-called Charleston loophole - but advocates face a familiar uphill battle in trying to win over enough Republicans.
Still, proponents are optimistic that a Democratic-led Senate, combined with an ally in the Oval Office and a weakened National Rifle Association (NRA), will help get gun control legislation passed for the first time in decades.
"We have a slim gun violence prevention majority, but we have the majority, which we know includes eight Republicans," said Brian Lemek, executive director of Brady PAC.
Eight GOP lawmakers last week voted for the background check legislation that would require unlicensed or private sellers to conduct a check before they transfer a firearm.
Schumer on Thursday promised to bring the bill, known as H.R. 8, to the Senate floor, though he did not specify timing.
"The legislative graveyard is over," he told reporters. "H.R. 8 will be on the floor of the Senate, and we will see where everybody stands."
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Gun sales in the United States reached a record level last year, with the biggest increases in background checks for firearms overlapping with months of social and political unrest, according to industry and government data.
a group of people in a store: Inside Stoddard's Range and Guns.© Martin Savidge/CNN Inside Stoddard's Range and Guns.
Industry data and firearms background checks show nearly 23 million guns were purchased in 2020, according to Small Arms Analytics, a consulting firm based in Greenville, South Carolina.
That's a 65% increase compared with 2019, when 13.9 million guns were sold, according to Small Arms Analytics.
Since there is no national gun registry, firearms industry publications and background checks are the best sources for gauging sales.
FBI background checks on gun buyers increased all year, but the biggest jumps -- March, June, July and December -- overlapped with periods of political and social unrest. Background checks don't correlate directly to the number of guns sold.
In March, the FBI conducted more than 3.7 million background checks -- a month that overlapped with the start of the pandemic lockdowns. That's more than 1 million additional background checks than were conducted in March 2019.
Come on man! how is any politician seeing gun restriction as a good way to get re-elected?
