"I’m prepared to stand on this floor and talk about the need for this body [the US Senate] to come together on keeping terrorists away from getting guns… for frankly as long as I can because I know that we can come together on this issue," Murphy said on Wednesday.
Murphy started speaking during the time when senators were scheduled to vote on a motion to proceed with a Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill for fiscal year 2017.
Gun violence and tougher gun control laws are part of the political debate in the United States in the wake of multiple mass shootings in the past several years.
While the Second Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right of US citizens to keep and bear arms, there are calls for renewed gun laws in the wake of Sunday morning’s mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub which left 49 dead and 53 others injured.
