He called on lawmakers to fix gun background checks.
The one thing I did have hopes for was some serious reform of the gun background check laws.
Last year, a U.A.B. study found that increased gun background checks correlate with fewer homicides and suicides.
They could demand gun background checks, immigration reform, a national infrastructure rebuilding program and a few other things.
In November, the FBI ran more than 2.2m gun background checks, a 24% increase from last year.
Gun background checks hit a new record on Black Friday, when 185,345 were processed by the FBI.
Shelved Ideas to Improve Gun Background Checks," Charlie Savage writes that proposals after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords were mostly shelved as election campaigns heated up.
The bill would facilitate the transfer of information from the State Division of Criminal Justice Services to the federal gun background check system.
It's not just that they oppose things like immigration reform and simple gun background checks for violent felons, while huge majorities support them.
In Michigan, he said, 11,000 people lied on gun background checks in the last several years, but federal prosecutors brought charges only 18 times.
Most of the nine states that now provide access to mental health information for gun background checks have even more stringent safeguards.
