The Business of Guns

A swath of mass shootings in 2019 returned the public eye to the expansion of background checks.

and Pat Toomey (a Republican from Pennsylvania), who have introduced legislation to Congress several times with the aim of extending federal background checks to all Internet sales. Under the Manchin–Toomey bill, all sellers would be required to funnel their exchanges through a federally licensed dealer who could perform a background check and act as a middleman for the sale. First proposed in 2013, Manchin–Toomey failed to get the necessary 60 votes in the Senate for passage, primarily due to

Chapter 4: The Internet

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