Senator Sanders answering a key question the day of the Newtown CT massacre shows that he has no intention of doing anything.
October 2005, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), granting sweeping legal immunity to the gun industry. Gun manufacturers who lobbied for the bill warned that suits like New York's were a scheme hatched by activist lawyers and judges to bankrupt the gun industry.
Sanders, then in the House of Representatives, voted for the PLCAA, as he had done for an earlier iteration of the measure that failed in 2003.
Senator Clinton of NY voted against the PLCAA.
Sanders helped derail the most viable effort in decades to stem the flow of guns onto the black market.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/bernie-sanders-vote-gun-immunity-black-market
The Brady Act mandated that everyone who wanted to buy a handgun had to wait five days while local law enforcement ran criminal background checks.
(After 1998, the firearm dealers became responsible for conducting the checks.)
But before Brady became law, it underwent many transformations.
Sanders, elected to the House of Representatives in 1990
• In May 1991, Sanders voted against a version of the Brady Bill that mandated a seven-day waiting period for background checks, but the bill passed in the House.
• The Senate decreased the waiting period to five days and the bill returned to the House. In Nov. 1991, Sanders voted against that version. Though it passed in the House, the Senate didn’t muster enough votes. The Brady Bill and its gun control stance remained in limbo during 1992.
• A version of the bill resurfaced that reinstated the five day waiting period. In November 1993, Sanders voted against that version but for an amendment imposing an instant background check instead. (seen by some as pointless, as the technology for instant checks didn’t exist at the time)
• He also voted against an amendment that would have ended state waiting periods, and for an amendment giving those denied a gun the right to know why.
• The final compromise version of the Brady bill -- an interim five-day waiting period while installing an instant background check system -- was passed and signed into law on Nov. 30, 1993. Sanders voted against it.