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Senator Merkley Statement on Senate’s Rejection of Common-Sense Gun Proposals

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2016.   Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to defeat proposals that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying guns and that would close loopholes in the background check system:

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“It’s incomprehensible and shameful that 53 Senators put a higher priority on pleasing the gun lobby than keeping weapons out of the hands of suspected terrorists, known criminals, and the dangerously disturbed. There are very…

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