Steve Scalise: Pelosi’s Background Check Law Wouldn’t Have Stopped El Paso and Dayton Shooters

‘The president said he wants the make sure that people with mental illnesses don’t get guns’

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SCALISE: “First of all, I have supported him on that. In fact, we got a bill to President Trump’s desk last year which truly does go after some of the real problems we saw where people were falling through the cracks and not getting into the background system, like so many shootings, like Charleston and others. The president said he wants the make sure that people with mental illnesses don’t get guns. In fact, there were a lot of people we were finding that weren’t getting put into the system. We need to keep working on that and make the background check system work better. We passed a very bipartisan bill to do just that and Donald Trump signed it into law last year. Let’s focus on making that work better so a lot of these people that slip through the cracks don’t slip through the cracks again in future attempts where they might try to do that.”

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