TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 21, 2016

In successive votes yesterday, a divided U.S. Senate defeated four gun control measures, two proposed by Democrats and two put forward by Republicans. The votes fell mostly along party lines. Tennessee’s two Republican senators were no exception, the Nashville Post reports. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker both voted against a measure from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., to expand background checks as well as a measure from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to block gun sales to those on a federal watch list. But they both voted for a plan by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to deny gun sales to those on the watch list if a prosecutor shows probable cause within three days, and another proposal by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that would have increased funding for background checks.