Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CN), along with Sen. Cory Booker (D-MA) and some thirty other Democrats, carried out a surprise filibuster on the senate floor to hold up action on any bills until the senate took action on two issues on gun control that should be uncontroversial.
They kept talking for 15 hours, well into the night, and only stopped when they had received assurances that the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders had talked and agree to hold a vote on the two measures that would close gun-buying loopholes. One would bar people on terrorists watchlists from buying guns. The other would tighten controls over online and private gun sales that can so easily evade background checks.
Sen. Murphy and others emphasize that these first steps are sane and sensible and should be non-controversial; but even they have been stymied by the NRA-controlled conservatives senators.
Ralph
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