Gun Control Background Checks
THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, high-profile gun violence has focused the national spotlight on gun control. 
The tragedy at Columbine High School and other mass shootings—like the one in Santee, Calif. last March—are always followed by a public debate of gun safety and gun owners’ rights in America.
But despite these debates there has been little response from Congress in the form of new federal gun control legislation. The last significant federal gun law was 1994’s Assault Weapons Ban, passed five years before Columbine.
A bill last year that would have subjected handguns to the same restrictions as machine guns died before the Congress adjourned. And the only debate on the horizon for the 107th Congress this year will be about closing the so-called “gun-show loophole.”
New legislation introduced in the Senate looks to close a “loophole” in federal gun laws that allows unlicensed gun sellers at flea markets and swap meets to sell guns without requiring them to do the same background checks that are required of licensed sellers.
C U CLEAR is standing by to conduct thorough and responsible background checks to ensure guns don’t end up in the wrong hands.