Lawmakers in the Philadelphia region are responding to calls for tighter restrictions on firearms in the wake of Tuesday's mass shooting in Texas.
Bucks County Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is currently on the ground in Ukraine, but he's one of a few Republicans who has voted for gun legislation in two separate bills aiming to strengthen background checks. Both are waiting in the Senate.
And now he's calling on the Senate to act, saying"I call on the Senate to vote on it today. The one challenge though is because of the filibuster it only takes a minority of senators, some 41, to block even having a vote on this and every other piece of legislation." And while Delaware Senator Chris Coons supports the bills in waiting, he says the votes that could prevent these tragedies just aren't there.
The loophole allowed Dylan Roof to buy a gun in 2015 and kill nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. It passed in the House but hasn't been voted on in the Senate yet.
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