By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is calling on members of the Senate to vote on gun legislation involving background checks.
Durbin says that more than 200 days have gone by since the Background Checks Act (H.R.8) passed in the House with just eight Republicans voting for it and two Democrats actually voting against it.
“They passed a bill, 200 days ago, that would call for serious background checks so that people who decide to drive 20 minutes or 30 minutes [across the state line] into Northern Indiana to a gun show and fill up the trunks of their cars with handguns and then come back and sell them in the neighborhoods of Chicago, might be slowed down or stopped,” Durbin said Monday.
Still, some argue that enforcement of existing laws and a crackdown on repeat gun offenders would actually produce real results as criminals already ignore existing state and federal gun laws, likely won’t follow new background check laws, and the law won’t stop criminals from stealing firearms, acquiring them on the black market, or getting them from straw purchasers.
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