Ted Cruz says legislation could have prevented Texas shooting - but Democrats pulled the plug

In an interview on Fox News about the awful Texas shooting that took 26 lives, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that he had introduced legislation with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) in 2013 that could have prevented the horror, but Democrats filibustered it.

Here's the video of Ted Cruz on Fox News:

Here's what he said:

"We could have prevented this," Cruz said, "in 2013 in the wake of Sandy Hook, I joined with Chuck Grassley, we introduced legislation that was called the Grassley-Cruz legislation. And it was aggressive legislation targeting felons and violent criminals to stop them from getting guns."

"There were a couple of elements of that legislation that were critical," he explained. "One, it mandated that federal agencies, including the Air Force, report to the NCIS because that was a problem back then."

"But two, and this is an even more critical piece," he added. "If it had been reported to the background database, when he went into academy to buy these weapons, he lied on the forms - that is a felony to lie on those forms."

"The Obama administration didn't prosecute those cases," he continued. "In 2010, 40,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns - they prosecuted only 44 of them."

"Gun control for felons and fugitives yes, for individual citizens," Cruz concluded, "for law-abiding citizens, no, and the Democrats filibustered the legislation that would have resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that Texas church."

Is Cruz correct?

Cruz is correct about his legislation being filibustered by Democrats in 2013, and the Texas shooter appears to have been allowed to buy guns because of a clerical error by the Air Force.

[H/T: The Right Scoop]