Manchin and Toomey Announce Background Check Compromise

Manchin, left, Toomey, right

US Senators Manchin and Toomey have announced an agreement to increase gun background checks.

Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, and Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, are calling their plan the best compromise that the two party's can reach.

Under their proposal, background checks would be required at gun shows and for online sales.

Only sales between friends and family would be exempt from the "universal" background checks.

Similar bills have been recently passed in individual states.