So-called 'red flag laws' are emerging as a focus of a bipartisan group of senators negotiating on a limited set of new policies targeting gun violence.
he keeps an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle at home, said that red flag laws would be more effective than a ban on such weapons.
Such a ban wouldn't work, French says, because"it's a virtual impossibility — there's tens of millions, 20 million maybe or more of them in circulation right now." Such a ban has little support among conservatives, he said, unlike red flag laws.
Regardless of what's ultimately in the package, he said it's critical to get legislation to the Senate floor as soon as possible to keep pressure on GOP senators. "The history here is that interest wanes, that Republicans abandon these efforts, and I believe this is a 'put-up or shut-up' time for Republicans," he said."They need to show up to work and do their job: vote for commonsense, sensible measures."Kelsey Snell is a Congressional correspondent for NPR. She has covered Congress since 2010 for outlets including The Washington Post, Politico and National Journal.
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