A spokeswoman for Ms. Heitkamp, Abigail McDonough, said the senator was in talks with Ms. Collins and hopeful that an agreement could be reached. gun purchases by anyone who had been on the designated watch list within the last five years. Ms. Collins and Ms. Feinstein have each added language to their proposals aimed at addressing the situation in Orlando, in which the killer, Omar Mateen, had been on a government watch-list but was removed before he bought his guns. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyInstead, Ms. Collins has proposed an appeals process that would award attorney’s fees to anyone who successfully challenged the government’s effort to prevent the sale of a firearm. is immediately notified that you have bought the gun and that you formerly were on one of these two lists,” she said.

Source: New York Times June 17, 2016 13:33 UTC