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.”
“They’re afraid of the NRA, so I’m not optimistic that we will be able to get something done,” Schumer said.
On Sunday, a shooter killed 26 and injured 20 more at the First Baptist Church in town in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, revealed that he plans to introduce a bill that would incentivize federal agencies to report criminal convictions to ensure guns are not illegally purchased. Devin Patrick Kelley, the shooter, purchased a gun despite a 2014 domestic assault conviction, which the Air Force said they erroneously failed to report.
Meanwhile, multiple members have released legislation that would ban the sale of bump stocks, the modification used by the shooter in the Las Vegas shooting on Oct. 1.