Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Today, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Arkadi Gerney issued the following statement after the House Committee on Appropriations voted to advance and fund an important program to improve gun background checks while also extending restrictions that undermine law enforcement efforts to combat gun trafficking.
The committee agreed to more than $58 million for grants to ensure states are supplying all appropriate records of those prohibited from purchasing firearms to the…
