REP. DAVID CICILLINE: Well, look, I think that — that message doesn’t help. But the reality is we passed two important gun safety proposals back in February, universal background checks and closing the Charleston loophole.

Universal background checks work. Three million gun sales have been prevented because people who are not eligible to buy a gun because of their criminal record, their domestic abuse, their mental health status, went into a gun store and tried to buy a gun and they were denied. So we know background checks work.

The problem is, one in five gun sales happens in this country without a background check. So we passed legislation to fix that, to close that loophole. It’s been sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk since February. And so first and foremost —