众议院周四通过了2021年两党背景调查法案，该法案要求对所有商业枪支销售进行普遍背景调查，这是民主党赢得参议院控制权后推动枪支管制的新举措的一部分。
一些共和党人强烈反对扩大检查，一个人说他们“打算把守法的公民变成罪犯。”尽管遭到批评，八名共和党人支持该法案，该法案以227票对203票获得通过。
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2021年2月19日，一名男子进入俄勒冈州塞勒姆的一家枪支商店。这么多人在娱乐
这项普遍背景调查立法是由加利福尼亚州众议员迈克·汤普森(Mike Thompson)在3月份提出的，他是众议院枪支暴力预防工作队(House Gun Violence Prevention特遣部队)的主席，该工作队有三名共和党共同赞助人。
“这两项立法将大大有助于改善枪支暴力，”汤普森在周四上午该法案通过前不久的新闻发布会上说。汤普森还吹捧背景调查的功效，同时被支持该法案的立法者包围，包括众议员露西·麦克巴斯(Lucy McBath)。他的儿子是枪支暴力的受害者。
该法案是在桑迪胡克小学枪击事件后成立的家庭枪支暴力预防工作队的工作。这项立法最初是由众议院在2019年初提出并通过的，但从未被共和党控制的参议院审议过。
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根据联邦调查局的分析，2020年迄今为止，估计已售出2100万支枪
众议院以219票对210票，主要是按照政党路线，通过了众议院议员吉姆·克莱伯恩(Jim Clyburn)提出的一项枪支控制措施，将背景调查的等待期延长至10天。该法案将堵塞“查尔斯顿漏洞”，如果三天内没有进行背景调查，该漏洞允许出售枪支。
这个名字是在一个漏洞允许枪手迪伦·屋顶为查尔斯顿教堂的一场屠杀获得一把枪后创造的，这场屠杀造成9人死亡。克莱伯恩在周四上午众议院通过该法案前不久对其进行了讨论。
“你知道，当我想到查尔斯顿的漏洞时，我有点激动，因为在大多数人的生活中，没有什么比他们的教堂更神圣了，”克莱伯恩说。
“然而，他仍然不应该有枪，他有枪的原因是因为当他去购买它和三天到期时，根据现行法律允许，他们不能核实他给他们的信息，因此不能完成背景调查，”克莱伯恩周三在众议院辩论该立法时说。"这项法律会阻止[屋顶]得到一把枪."
这些法案确实面临着共和党众议院议员的愤怒，他们不支持扩大背景调查。科罗拉多州共和党众议员劳伦·博伯特(Lauren Boebert)在推特上说，“对枪支进行全面背景调查只是为了将守法公民变成罪犯。”
众议员托马斯·马西，R-Ky。，也对克莱伯恩的立法提出异议，并在周三众议院的辩论中表示这是不公平的。
“用武装警卫包围自己，用有枪的国会警察包围自己，用人事细节包围自己，用保镖包围自己，让人民为此买单，而你却让这些人更难保护自己，这公平吗?我认为这不公平，”马西说。
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众议院多数党党鞭詹姆斯·克莱伯恩，两侧是众议员露西·麦克巴斯和众议员迈克·汤普森
在这两项法案提出后，乔·拜登总统表示支持这一努力，他在推特上说，他致力于“作为总统通过常识性的枪支安全改革”。
尽管这两项法案都可能在众议院获得通过，但它们将在50-50分裂的参议院面临四面楚歌的通过。尽管一些温和的民主党人和共和党人，如弗吉尼亚州民主党人乔·曼钦和宾夕法尼亚州共和党人帕特·图梅。，已经提出背景调查议案过去了。
House passes 2 gun sale background check bills
The House on Thursday passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, a measure that would require universal background checks on all commercial gun sales, part of a new push for gun control after Democrats won control of the Senate.
Some Republicans strongly objected to the expanded checks, one saying they're "meant to turn law-abiding citizens into criminals." Despite their criticism, eight Republicans backed the bill, which passed 227-203.
The universal background check legislation was introduced in March by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who is chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, has three GOP cosponsors.
"These two pieces of legislation will go a long way in improving gun violence," Thompson said at a press conference shortly before the bill passed Thursday morning. Thompson also touted the efficacy of background checks, while surrounded by lawmakers who support the bill, including Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., whose son was a victim of gun violence.
The bill is the work of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force which was created in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The legislation was originally introduced and passed by the House in early 2019 but was never considered by the Republican-controlled Senate.
The House voted 219-210, mostly along party lines, to pass a gun control measure introduced by Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C to extend the the waiting period for background checks to 10 days. The bill would close the "Charleston loophole," which allows the sale of a gun if a background check hasn’t been done in three days.
The name was coined after the loophole allowed shooter Dylann Roof to obtain a gun for a massacre in a Charleston church that killed nine people. Clyburn discussed bill shortly before it passed in the House Thursday morning.
"You know, I get a little emotional when I think about the Charleston loophole because there's nothing more sacred in the lives of most people than their church," Clyburn said.
"However, he still should not have had the gun and the reason he had the gun is because when he went to purchase it and the three days expired, as the current law allows, they had not been able to verify the information he had given them, and therefore could not complete the background check,” Clyburn said Wednesday during House floor debate on the legislation. "This law would have prevented [Roof] from getting a gun."
The bills did face ire from Republican House members not in support of expanded background checks. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said in a tweet that “universal background checks on guns are only meant to turn law-abiding citizens into criminals."
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., also took issue with Clyburn’s legislation, and during debate on the House floor Wednesday, said it was not fair.
"Is it fair to surround yourself with armed guards, with Capitol Police who have guns, with personnel details, bodyguards and ask the people to pay for it while you make it harder for those same people to protect themselves? I don’t think that’s fair," Massie said.
After the two bills were introduced, President Joe Biden threw his weight behind the effort, saying in a tweet that he is committed to "passing common-sense gun safety reforms as president."
Though both bills will likely pass in the House, they will face an embattled passage in the 50-50 split Senate. Though some moderate Democrats and Republicans, like Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., have put forward background check bills in the past.
