Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert indicated his support for expanding background checks on Wednesday.
“You have to have a background check,” he said on MSNBC. “A lot of states you just go at a gun show and buy a gun and take it home. I think there’s a reasonable way to do it. I think if it’s done on a timely nature, you know, if you have a little credit card, you can put it in a slot, and it can tell you whether you got credit or not. You should you can put it in a slot and it will tell you if you got credit or not. It should be able to be down in a reasonable way.”
He added: “But people are afraid that those guns get put on a shelf for months or a long time and they want to buy that and take access and these are the collectors and people who think this is part of their culture, but it should be done in a rational, quick way.”
