Maloney Calls on Mitch McConnell to Immediately Pass Bipartisan Gun Violence Prevention Bills

Maloney Calls on Mitch McConnell to Immediately Pass Bipartisan Gun Violence Prevention Bills

Newburgh, NY - Today, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) joined 213 of his colleagues in calling for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call the Senate back from the August recess and pass H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, and H.R. 1112, the Enhanced Background Checks Act. Both bills were passed out of the House of Representatives in February but have been blocked in the Senate by Senator McConnell. 

“Gun violence in our country is an epidemic and bold solutions are long overdue. I’m calling on Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to find the courage to do what’s right and immediately pass our bipartisan background check bills. Anything less is negligence,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.

This renewed call to action comes after a weekend of deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. In 2019 alone, there have been 255 mass-shooting incidents, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive (GVA).

An excerpt of the letter is below: 

“This inaction must stop. We know background checks save lives.  Every day background checks stop more than 170 felons and 50 domestic abusers from getting a gun.  Any delay to pass commonsense gun violence prevention legislation only increases the chances that more innocent people in America may suffer from the tragic and needless loss caused by gun violence.”

Rep. Maloney is a member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

Read the letter here. 

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