A bipartisan group of senators are working on a proposal to expand background checks for gun purchases, USA Today reports. The group includes Republican Sens. Tom Coburn Oklahoma and Mark Kirk of Illinois and Democrats Chuck Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Details on a potential bill so far are scarce.
Manchin said the senators “are just talking to everybody, that’s all. Everybody’s just trying to work together to find … some common-sense movement, if you will.”
Last weekend, Manchin told a West Virginia radio station he was working with Democratic and Republican senators, as well as the National Rifle Association, on something gun rights supporters could back. Such a bill, Manchin said, “basically says that if you’re going to be a gun owner, you should be able to pass a background check.”
