Democratic presidential hopeful Tim Ryan said Thursday night that Republican Mitch McConnell needs to call the Senate back into session "immediately" if majority leader is serious about having a conversation on expanding background checks for gun owners . "I've watched him slow walk this time and time and time again, and they're going to the same playbook," Ryan told the Courier Journal in an exclusive interview before the rally. "It's just a bunch of bologna."

McConnell, who is resting in Louisville after fracturing his shoulder over the weekend, said Thursday on 84 WHAS radio he is anxious to get a conversation going in the next few weeks with his fellow legislators about gun legislation to deal with shootings like the ones that happened over the weekend.

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