The Army's C-RAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) system, for example, which is used to protect American bases in Afghanistan, can fire on its own, using its six-barrel gun to blow up incoming mortars.
"Truly the events at Newtown changed us all, " said Manchin, citing the Connecticut town where December's murders of 20 first-graders and six educators propelled gun control to the top rank of national issues.
Six days before the failed gun attack - no arrests have been made yet - Mr Pandey had his first near-assignation with death.
Six more states require background checks for gun-show sales of handguns, but not for rifles or shotguns, Nichols said.
And in Arizona, a staunchly pro-gun state where the 2011 assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson left six dead and 13 wounded, the drive for gun control following Newtown has been a non-starter.
The brigade had placed a pick-up truck mounted with an anti-aircraft gun underneath each of the six planes on the tarmac, our correspondent says.
It's outrageous that this six-year-old boy was able to get that gun.
Our father charged a gun outfitted with 30-round extended clips and was shot six times.
The amendment will be one of perhaps dozens to be debated on the broader package of gun laws drafted in response to the killing of 20 first-graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Holder has for months joined the president in calling for an array of gun control measures in the wake of the shootings that killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
Obama and others pushing for tougher gun laws say the December attack by a lone gunman that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, showed the need for national action against gun violence.
CNN: Obama: 'Shame on us' if Newtown doesn't bring new gun laws
The Manchin-Toomey amendment will be one of perhaps dozens to be debated on the broader package of gun laws pushed by President Barack Obama following the shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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