Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Sunday that when Congress reconvenes in September, he plans on proposing a measure requiring the FBI approve sales of body armor to civilians.
"With the click of a mouse, scroll of a thumb, dialing of a phone, someone up to no good can get this," Schumer said. "What we have learned is that a good number of those intent on mass shootings buy body armor. They want to kill as many people as possible." Last weekend, a man wearing body armor gunned down nine people in Dayton, Ohio, before being shot and killed by police.
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