Miss. senators vote no on expanded background checks
Mississippi Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran voted Wednesday against proposals to expand gun-related background checks and ban assault weapons.
Each proposal failed to get the 60 votes needed for passage.
The background checks amendment, which failed 54-46, was the core of the Senate’s gun-control legislation. Drafted by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., it would have expanded background checks to include gun shows and Internet sales while exempting family-to-family and other private sales.
Wicker called the compromise “flawed.’’
Clarion Ledger
4/17/13
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