(Bloomberg) -- Senator Chris Murphy, whose home state of Connecticut was the site of the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, said Monday he'll reintroduce a bill requiring background checks of gun purchasers after yesterday's Las Vegas massacre.
Murphy, a Democrat, said the killings of at least 58 people in Las Vegas will likely pressure Congress to act in some fashion, though he sees little chance the Republican-controlled Congress would pass more stringent measures such as reinstating the assault-weapon ban that lapsed in 2004.
“We are likely better served by focusing on issues like background checks that immediately get more Republican support,” Murphy said. In 2013, he and other senators failed to win Senate passage of a bill to expand background checks after the Sandy Hook shootings that killed 20 children and six adults.
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