Sen. Martin Heinrich Delivers Remarks On Senate Floor On Bipartisan Safer Communities Act To Reduce Gun Violence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Our law enforcement watch this happen, but they can only go after the person who walked into the federal firearm licensee and made the very first of the straw purchases.
48% : This new process will require an investigative period to review criminal and mental health records, including checks with state databases and local law enforcement.
45% : With our new straw purchase provision, law enforcement will be able to go after every link in the illegal chain of purchases - to take down the entire ring, not just the vulnerable individuals these rings sometimes rely on to make the initial purchase.
41% : It gives law enforcement the tools they need to stop this activity, and the violence it directly and indirectly creates in our communities and within our borders.
32% : Right now, law enforcement has to watch as an organized chain of straw purchases happens, one after another, intended to protect the person most at fault - the mastermind of the operation - by keeping them far removed from the purchase that happens at an FFL -- a federal firearm licensee.

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