Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says he’s waiting for details before saying whether he’ll support or oppose a bipartisan group’s response to recent mass shootings.
Grassley says he’s “encouraged” by the progress on the subject so far in Washington.
Rallies in six Iowa cities last weekend called on Grassley and Iowa’s other Republican Senator, Joni Ernst, to back gun restrictions. Ten Republicans and ten Democrats announced Sunday they’d agreed on a package that includes making criminal records of juveniles available for background checks when a prospective gun buyer is under the age of 21.
Grassley says he’s looking for two basic principles which he says are musts in the legislation.
Senator Joni Ernst is also withholding judgment on the package until she reads the text of the legislation.
The Des Moines City Council is urging both Grassley and Ernst to support the bill when it comes up for a vote in the Senate. Iowa’s capital city has the state’s highest murder rate. Nine people have been victim of homicide in Des Moines so far this year. Seven of those cases were fatal shootings.
