[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]




                  AN URGENT REQUEST FOR THE LEADERSHIP

  (Mr. THOMPSON of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, I didn't come to the floor 
with prepared remarks today. I just came with a very urgent request.
  I ask that the Republican leadership hold a vote on our commonsense, 
bipartisan, pro-Second Amendment background check legislation and no 
fly, no buy legislation. Ninety percent of the American people support 
it. It is pro-Second Amendment. It is bipartisan. The background check 
now has 187 coauthors. But more important, most important, it works.
  Every day, 170 felons are stopped from buying firearms because of the 
background check. You don't know if a person who is trying to buy a 
firearm is a criminal, a domestic abuser, or is dangerously mentally 
ill unless you do a background check.
  Please, Mr. Speaker, please Republican leadership, bring these two 
bills to the floor. Criminals, domestic abusers, potential terrorists, 
and the dangerously mentally ill should not be able to legally and 
easily purchase firearms.

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