Chuck Schumer ‘not optimistic’ gun legislation will advance after Texas shooting

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he does not expect any movement on a gun control bill in the Republican-led Congress, even after the shooting in Texas over the weekend.

“They’ve done the ultimate dodge,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday. “Even with the modifications that allows semi-automatics to be made into automatics, they’re backing off … Even on the most rudimentary things that 90 percent of American would support.”

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