[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19937]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     LET'S HAVE A MOMENT OF ACTION

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, Faisal Shahzad was already on the no-fly 
list when he attempted to bomb Times Square in May of 2010. If he had 
decided to walk into a gun store that day, he would have walked out 
with a gun in hand. Fortunately, Shahzad's bomb failed to go off. But 
had he, instead, purchased a military-style weapon that day, it could 
have been very different.
  It is absolutely against common sense that suspected terrorists can 
walk into a gun store and purchase any firearm that they would like. 
They can't walk onto a plane, mind you, but they can purchase a 
military-style assault weapon and wreak havoc on a community.
  Seventy-seven percent of the American people believe we should close 
this loophole. The Republicans have an option. A bill by their 
Republican colleague from New York (Mr. King) would close that 
loophole.
  I ask my colleagues on the Republican side to listen to Mr. King and 
the American people and not to the NRA and the gun manufacturers. We 
have had enough moments of silence. For once, let's have a moment of 
action.

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