Washington, D.C. — Today, a bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a bill to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by helping to ensure that people who are prohibited from buying and possessing guns under federal law are not able to slip through the cracks. Chelsea Parsons, vice president of Guns and Crime Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement app...