Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that he now has 200 co-sponsors from both parties for his bipartisan Thompson-King Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act, a bill that would give states resources to help them submit information to the background checks system.
The bill would also expand the system to cover all commercial firearm sales, closing gun show, Internet and classified ad loopholes.
“It is clear that members of both parties and the President himself agree – we need a strengthened background checks system to help keep our nation safe. That’s why I am pleased to announce a record number of supporters, Democrats and Republicans, for my bipartisan bill to expand the system,” said Thompson. “This support marks the overwhelming public support for strengthening background checks and the urgent need to take action immediately. Let’s hold a vote now and act to help prevent gun violence.”
Republican co-sponsors include Representatives Costello, Curbelo, Fitzpatrick, King, Lance, Meehan, Dent, Donovan, Mast, Ros-Lehtinen and Smith.
Democratic co-sponsors include Representatives Adams, Aguilar, Barragan, Bass, Beatty, Bera, Beyer, Blumenauer, Blunt Rochester, Bonamici, Bordallo, Boyle, Brady, Brown, Brownley, Bustos, Butterfield, Capuano, Carbajal, Cardenas, Carson, Cartwright, Castor, Castro, Chu, Cicilline, Clark , Clarke, Clay, Clyburn, Cohen, Connolly, Cooper, Correa, Costa, Courtney, Crist, Crowley, Cummings, Danny Davis, Susan Davis, DeFazio, DeGette, Delaney, DeLauro, DelBene, Demings, DeSaulnier, Deutch, Dingell, Doggett, Doyle, Ellison, Engel, Eshoo, Espaillat, Esty, Evans, Foster, Frankel, Fudge, Gabbard, Gallego, Garamendi, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gottheimer, Green, Grijalva, Gutierrez, Hanabusa, Hastings, Heck, Higgins, Himes, Hoyer, Huffman, Jackson Lee, Jayapal, Jeffries, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Hank Johnson, Jr., Kaptur, Keating, Kelly, Kennedy, Khanna, Kihuen , Kildee, Kilmer, Krishnamoorthi, Kuster, Langevin, Larsen, Larson, Lawrence, Lawson , Lee, Levin, Lewis, Lieu, Lipinski, Loebsack, Lofgren, Lowenthal, Lowey, Lujan, Lujan Grisham, Lynch, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Patrick Maloney, Matsui, McCollum, McEachin, McGovern, McNerney, Meeks, Meng, Moore, Moulton, Murphy, Nadler, Napolitano, Neal, Nolan, Norcross, Norton, O'Halleran, O'Rourke, Pallone, Panetta, Pascrell, Payne, Pelosi, Peters, Perlmutter, Pingree, Plaskett, Pocan, Polis, Price, Quigley, Raskin, Rice, Richmond, Rosen, Roybal-Allard, Ruiz, Ruppersberger, Rush, Tim Ryan, Sanchez, Sarbanes, Schakowsky, Schiff, Schneider, Schrader, Bobby Scott, David Scott, Serrano, Shea-Porter, Sherman, Sires, Slaughter, Smith, Soto, Speier, Suozzi, Swalwell, Takano, Bennie Thompson, Titus, Tonko, Torres, Tsongas, Vargas, Veasey, Vela, Velazquez, Visclosky, Walz, Wasserman Shultz, Waters, Watson Coleman, Welch, Wilson and Yarmuth.