Gillibrand: The NRA Does Not Care Whether a Predator or a Wife Beater Could Have Access to Guns

RUSH EXCERPT:

GILLIBRAND: “The NRA is largely funded by the gun manufacturers. The gun manufacturers want to make money at all costs. It doesn't matter who they are selling the gun to. The reason why they are against universal background checks is they want to sell a weapon to somebody on the terror watch list. They want to sell a weapon to someone gravely mentally ill with a violent background. They want to sell a weapon to someone with a criminal conviction for a violent crime. They're against the violence against women's act. Why? Because they want to make sure a predator or someone who beats his wife can have easy access to a weapon, literally. Let's talk about what it is. It's about greed. If we can start defying this debate about the greed and corruption of the NRA and the gun manufacturers that fund them, then we're going to have clarity on this issue. I'm more hopeful than I've ever been at any gun violence in the United States.”