Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said he continues to work with his Republican and Democratic colleagues to pass gun safety legislation, especially after the deadly school shooting last week in Michigan.
"The fact of matter is we have the votes in the House, in the Senate, for universal background checks bill. We have a President who will sign it," he told CNN's Jake Tapper on"State of the Union.""It's the rules of the Senate that prevent us from passing and we probably have 52, 53, 54 votes in the Senate for this. So the rules right now are what prevents us from being able to enact the will of the public.
"And so my hope is that in the next couple of weeks we can get back to the table and see if we can, at the very least, as you said, maybe close the gun show loophole. That alone would save a lot of lives."He also said he believes a safe storage policy for guns could be a bipartisan solution for gun safety policy.
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