[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     CLOSE THE CHARLESTON LOOPHOLE

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I often quote Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 
iconic letter from the Birmingham City Jail when he wrote:

       We are going to be made to repent not just for the hateful 
     words and deeds of bad people, but for the appalling silence 
     of good people.

  Mr. Speaker, some very dastardly acts have been committed, one of 
which we will be commemorating the first anniversary of on Friday, June 
17, when the people of Charleston, South Carolina, the State, and many 
across the Nation, will pause to commemorate the lives of nine people 
who were murdered and the three who survived because our gun laws 
allowed a young man to purchase a gun whose background check showed he 
should not have have been allowed to purchase a gun. However, the 
loophole says if the background check is not completed in 3 days, you 
can still purchase the gun.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to close the Charleston loophole.

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