WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
This week, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) led twenty-five Senators in introducing legislation to close a current loophole that allows gun sales to proceed if a background check is not completed within a certain time period, even if the gun buyer is not legally allowed to purchase a gun. The gap in existing law has allowed thousands of gun sales to prohibited buyers, including the sale of the firearm used by the shooter in the deadly attack at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church. U.S. Representative James E. Clyburn has introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
"This loophole is a massive gateway to dangerous evasion of th...