On Wednesday, a day before the one year anniversary of the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Rep. Martha Roby, R_AL, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, voted against the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which would impose universal background checks for all gun sale.

“I am strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an individual’s right to keep and bear arms,” Roby said in a statement. “This bill would do nothing more than criminalize common transfers of firearms while doing nothing to prevent gun violence.”

The measure ultimately cleared the committee along party lines and is slated to go before the full House of Representatives.

“This legislation is poorly drafted and ill-considered. It simply punishes lawful gun owners without addressing the realities behind gun violence,” Roby said. “To combat gun violence, we must look at improvements to our mental health system and we must more effectively enforce the laws currently on the books. We should not be wasting valuable time on an ineffective bill that will only serve to impede upon the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans.”

Roby stated that actions such as “loaning a gun to a neighbor, donating a historic firearm to a museum or gifting a gun to a relative” would become illegal under the proposed legislation.

Further, she claimed the measure would “make it illegal to remove firearms from friends’ or neighbors’ houses if they express concern about suicidal thoughts.”

The bill would expand background checks to unlicensed gun sellers, such as those at gun shows or on the web, where as only licensed dealers are currently required to conduct background checks.

The legislation provides exemptions for gifts and transfers for use in hunting or at firing ranges.

“Some lawmakers view the Second Amendment as being an inferior Amendment, to be restricted and curtailed,” Roby said.  “But the Founding Fathers included the first 10 Amendments, also known as the Bill of Rights, in the Constitution because they understood the need to place restrictions on the federal government in order to protect individual liberty.