Bipartisan Deal Near To Expand Background Checks To Private Gun Sales

Posted by | February 24, 2013 09:33 | Filed under: Top Stories


Senators from both parties are close to a deal to mandate background checks on private guns sales.

The talks, led by two Democrats and two Republicans, are expected to earn more GOP support in the coming days and likely enough to move the bill through the Senate, according to senior aides of both parties who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

“These negotiations are challenging, as you’d expect on an issue as complicated as guns,” the chief negotiator, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), said in a statement Saturday. “But all of the senators involved are approaching this in good faith. We are all serious about wanting to get something done, and we are going to keep trying.”

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