US senators reach deal on gun-sale background checks

Senators struck a hard-fought compromise Wednesday, April 10, that could expand US background checks to all commercial firearms sales, which may result in the most ambitious change to gun laws since 1994. “We have an agreement… on an amendment to prevent criminals and the mentally ill and insane from getting firearms,” said Democrat Joe Manchin, from the pro-gun state of West Virginia, as he unveiled the measure. The amendment would see background checks — the core of President Barack Obama’s gun control push — expanded to include all sales at gun shows and on the Internet, said Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey, the deal’s architects.

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