[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 111 (Monday, July 11, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           CONGRESS MUST ACT

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues in 
demanding votes on two commonsense, bipartisan pieces of legislation 
that are overwhelmingly supported by the American people.
  First, without a completed background check, we cannot identify 
criminals, domestic abusers, and other individuals too dangerous to own 
a gun. Right now, Federal law only requires criminal background checks 
at federally licensed gun dealers. Criminals can bypass the background 
check system altogether by going online or to a gun show. H.R. 1217, 
the bipartisan King-Thompson bill, closes this loophole, requiring 
background checks for all commercial gun sales regardless of where the 
sale is made.
  Second, if you are too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy 
a gun in America. When it is easier for a suspected terrorist to buy a 
gun than board a plane, something is wrong. H.R. 1076, the bipartisan 
no fly, no buy legislation, authored in part by Congressman Peter King, 
would prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing guns.
  Congress must act on these very simple, straightforward, bipartisan 
bills.

                          ____________________