Mayors pressure McConnell on gun control

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate’s majority leader, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, is getting more heat for not bringing to a vote legislation that would expand background checks for gun purchases.

More than 200 mayors have signed a letter calling for McConnell to bring senators back to Washington from their August recess to pass measures approved this year by the Democratic-run House.

Two of the mayors are from cities in Texas and Ohio where deadly mass shootings occurred last weekend.