“One of the ideas that makes sense to me is to find some way to give some sort of limited, careful, confidential look back to make sure that somebody can’t show up at 18 years old [and] claim to be legally qualified to purchase a firearm when, if they had been an adult with this same record, they would have been disqualified by the background check system,” Cornyn said. “I’ve been spending a lot of time on the phone and Zooming and that sort of thing, and that seems to jump out as one aspect of this where people say, ‘Yeah, that’s a problem.’”The Texas Republican said that he is hopeful that there might be some common ground there. “Not naive,” he said, “but hopeful.”

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2022 14:35 UTC