![]() ![]() PolitiFact, Digging deeper on gun background check legislation, June 3, 2013 , Grassley-Cruz roll call vote, April 17, 2013 , Manchin-Toomey roll call vote, April 17, 2013 16, 2013Ĭ, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013, March 22, 2013Ĭ, Manchin-Toomey amendment, April 11, 2013 Obama White House, Presidential Memorandum - Improving Availability of Relevant Executive Branch Records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, Jan. ![]() Plain blog about politics, Manchin-Toomey and the Filibuster, April 17, 2013 The Washington Post, The gun amendments need 60 votes to pass but why?, April 17, 2013 The Washington Post, Senate bill to extend gun background checks killed by filibuster, April 17, 2013 , Enforcement of the Brady Act, 2010: Federal and State Investigations and Prosecutions of Firearm Applications, Aug. ![]() The Washington Post, Ted Cruz’s claim on gun background check prosecutions, April 12, 2013 New York Times, Air Force error allowed Texas gunman to buy weapons, Nov. 6, 2017Įmail interview with Phil Novack, Ted Cruz spokesman, Nov. Ted Cruz reflects on the Texas church massacre, Nov. "If anything, the only way this would have affected the Texas shooting would be to make it easier for the shooter to attack a church in a neighboring state instead," said Gregory Koger, a political science professor at the University of Miami. But the Grassley-Cruz amendment chucked the expansion of background checks and even allowed for the interstate sale and transportation of firearms. The original bill from then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would have expanded background checks on purchases from only federally licensed gun dealers to all transfers, even private ones among family members, with few exceptions. The amendment eliminated sanctions for states that failed to submit records and lowered the cap on grant money to help states submit them from $100 million to $20 million. But his legislation did not seem to make this easier. Scaling back penalties for failure to shareĬruz said on Fox that a lack of reporting of federal and state records to the background check system was a problem. The Air Force needed to submit the shooter’s 2012 court-martial, and it failed to do so. It made no difference in the Texas church shooting. Molly Moran, who served as the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General from 2014 to 2016, said she and her colleagues at the Justice Department worked from 2013 until the end of Obama’s second term in implementing the memo. 16, 2013 memorandum to the Justice Department, which officials were already trying to implement. "The only possible contribution may have been that the reporting requirement to the AG might have led the Defense Department and the Air Force to realize that the procedures they had in place needed enhancement," said Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.īut the language was a near replica of President Barack Obama’s Jan. The amendment pushed for clearer guidance on submissions of federal records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (mandated by NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007) and required that federal agencies submit plans for making the information available. When we asked Cruz’s office for details, they softened what Cruz originally said, saying his legislation would have "increased the chances of preventing the Air Force error that led to the failure to submit the relevant information to NICS." So when he purchased two guns at the San Antonio gun shop Academy Sports + Outdoors, both sales were approved by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Federal law prohibited him from buying or possessing firearms after this conviction, but he got past the background check system because the Air Force failed to enter the shooter’s felony into the background check database. The Texas church shooter was discharged from the Air Force for bad conduct after he was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and fracturing his stepson's skull. ![]()
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