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March 16, 2021
Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) voted to pass two landmark bipartisan gun violence prevention bills that would close dangerous loopholes in our nation's background check system.
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"These are smart, commonsense bills that will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people and help make communities here in the Hudson Valley – and across America – safer places to live," said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. "With over 90 percent of the American public supporting universal background checks, these bills are a no-brainer. They are long overdue fixes to a broken system and will help save innocent lives."
H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, would close the "gun show loophole" by requiring universal background checks to ensure that individuals already prohibited from gun possession under federal law, such as felons and domestic abusers, are not able to obtain firearms. Right now, federal gun laws exempt unlicensed gun sellers – people who sell guns online, at gun shows, or person-to-person without a federal dealer's license – from having to perform a background before selling a firearm.