Lawmakers rally around expanded background checks for gun sales [View all]

Universal background checks are back!

http://thehill.com/regulation/legislation/234457-lawmakers-rally-around-gun-control-legislation

“This bill is anti-criminal, and will help keep spouses, kids and communities safe by preventing dangerous people from getting guns,” said Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), who will introduce the legislation.

But the gun safety legislation comes in stark contrast to recent Republican bills that would expand concealed carry laws across the country and allow hunters to use armor-piercing ammunition.

Gun rights groups are gearing up for a major concealed carry push.

The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, introduced last month by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the second-ranking Republican in the upper chamber, would allow gun owners who have a concealed carry permit in their home state to bring their firearms to any other state with concealed-carry laws."

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The problem with Cornyn's bill is two fold. One, it would require all states to accept the least restrictive CC protocols as opposed to those passed in their own legislatures and two it injects Federal regulation on states legislatures. It's one thing to pass a uniform CC act that sets universal minimum requirements and another thing entirely to force states to comply with the lowest common denominator devised by all the other states.