Why won't Republicans pass their own background-check bill?
To hear the folks at the National Rifle Association tell it, they are great lovers of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and believe that the federal government needs to fix its flaws. NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch took it a step further and blamed the supposed liberal media for NICS failures, asking, "Where are the stories about how 38 states submit less than 80 percent of criminal convictions to the background check system?" Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, seemingly took the NRA's comments at face value and introduced the Fix NICS Act of 2017, which is supposed to help improve recordkeeping and stop people like Dylann Roof and Devin Patrick Kelley — two mass shooters who should have failed to pass a background check, but didn't — from getting guns. The first thing to understand about Fix NICS is that it's "just the tiniest of baby steps," said Avery Gardiner, co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. There's a quick way for congressional Republicans to prove that they actually prioritize American lives over gun-industry profits: Fix the background check system, by both passing Fix NICS and closing the massive loopholes.
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