A gun-control group supported by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making a push for background check legislation with a six-figure ad buy this week intended to influence congressional lawmakers, according to
Politico.
Everytown for Gun Safety will be launching an ad campaign in publications in Washington, D.C., including The Washington Post and Politico. It is also assembling petitions to Congress and gun retailer Cabela's.
The group, which was formed last year by the joining of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, has said it has more than 3 million members and 40,000 donors, Politico reported.
Last year, Bloomberg spent an estimated $40 million backing candidates at the federal, state, and local levels who support gun control, among other issues he supports.
Everytown for Gun Safety last year
rated candidates based on their answers to a survey.
Everytown for Gun Safety is backing a measure authored by
South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn designed to prevent retailers from selling firearms to people with incomplete background checks. The bill, however, is unlikely to get through the GOP-controlled Congress.
"Honestly, I don't want to build up any false expectations. I'm not aware that we've got the votes," Pennsylvania
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, who co-authored a bipartisan bill that failed to move forward two years ago, said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" last month, according to Politico.
Toomey and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin have said they intend to take up the issue again, this time possibly focusing the legislation on
keeping guns away from the mentally ill.
Proponents of the measures are hoping that the recent spate of gun massacres could sway Congress to act, Politico said.
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