Sen. McConnell has been a fierce opponent of gun restrictions throughout his 35-year Senate career.
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has come under increased pressure in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, but calls for legislative action to respond to gun violence is nothing new to the longtime GOP leader — and neither is his resistance to such solutions.
After a mass shooting at the Standard Gravue printing plant in Kentucky in 1989, McConnell, then a freshman senator,Twenty-eight years later, after a shooter killed 59 people in Las Vegas, his response was that"the investigation has not even been completed. And I think it’s premature to be discussing legislative solutions, if there are any.”
McConnell has long been a champion of the NRA, consistently receiving an “A” rating from the gun rights group. Over his career, he’s received more that $1.2 million in campaign contributions from the NRA. Most recently, McConnell has refused to bring two incremental pieces of legislation with broad bipartisan support to the Senate.
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