A recent Fox43 poll question asked our viewers, do you support an assault weapons ban? Poll results show that 63 percent of respondents said no, while 33 percent of respondents said yes. Only 4 percent said other.
US Senators voted against four separate gun control amendments yesterday. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins said she plans to float a potential fifth measure. She is expected to unveil the plan today at 1:45 pm.
Votes cast Monday were largely along partisan lines. In order for the measures to pass, a 60-vote threshold was required.
Of the four measures, a majority of Senators voted against a Republican proposal that recommended updating the background check system for gun purchases, which would have required states to add more information on mental health records to a national database. It also included the provisions to alert law enforcement agencies when an individual who was on a government terror watch list in the last five years buys a gun.
A second Republican proposal to expand the background check system for those buying guns to require checks at gun shows and for online purchases also failed. A 15-hour filibuster last week to press for new gun restrictions after the Orlando massacre where 49 people were killed failed to influence the vote outcome.
A Republican proposal to delay gun sales to individuals included on a government terror watch list failed. The bill would allow a judge to permanently block a purchase if the court determined probable cause that the individual is involved in terrorist activity.
And a Democratic option that sought to bar all gun sales to those individuals on the terror watch list failed. The second time the proposal went down to defeat after a mass shooting. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein originally pushed the proposal in December after a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. and revived it after the horrific Orlando, Fla. nightclub shooting by a gunman who pledged allegiance to the terror group ISIS.
