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Jon Collins

Senate Dems push new gun control laws

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar
In this Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 photo, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., takes questions after addressing a summit in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Klobuchar told reporters during a visit to a food bank in Golden Valley, Minn., Friday that she is optimistic that Congress will pass a long-stalled farm bill this year.
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Some Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pushing a package of legislation that would strengthen gun background checks and increase penalties for people who buy guns for others who are ineligible to possess them.

The package of bills includes a proposal to close a loophole allowing guns to be purchased without a background check online or in gun shows.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar authored some of the main proposals in the bill, including a provision that would ban people convicted of domestic violence from buying a gun.

"These types of proposals would actually reduce deaths, and we know that because states that have done things like this have had positive outcomes," she said on MPR News with Tom Weber.

Recent attempts to tighten gun laws in Congress have failed after opposition from most Republicans and some Democrats. Klobuchar said she hopes public pressure will change some lawmakers' minds.