[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  (Mr. TAKANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, if you go to a federally licensed gun dealer 
to buy a firearm, you must pass a background check. But if you go to a 
private seller at a gun show or over the Internet, it is completely 
legal to buy a firearm with no background check to determine if you are 
fit to own a deadly weapon.
  In all the discussion we have had on gun violence, I have yet to hear 
one good reason why this loophole should continue to exist.
  Mr. Speaker, 92 percent of gun owners and 86 percent of Republican 
voters support universal background checks. But instead of listening to 
the American people, my Republican colleagues have left town. They have 
rushed out of town. They have scrambled out of town.
  I will say the same thing I told my students when I was a high school 
teacher: There can be no recess until our work is done.
  Come back to Washington, and let's pass a universal background check 
bill.

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