WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) led a group of Senate Democrats in sounding the alarm on a proposed federal gun regulation that would revise the definitions of "adjudicated as a mental defective" and "committed to a mental institution," effectively raising the legal threshold to prohibit high-risk individuals' access to firearms.
In a letter to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Robert Cekada, the Senators wrote: "With these proposed revisions, ATF is rewriting the regulations that have been used and relied on fo...