GOP Rep. Mark Amodei pushed back this week against President Donald Trump's proposal to arm teachers, suggesting it would make more sense to assign police officers to schools rather than providing the training required to arm teachers and school personnel.

“If you want to train people to something in the neighborhood POST, the Peace Officers Training and Standards, which we have in Nevada...but by the time you do that, why don’t we just put a cop,” he said.

POST is a basic set of standards that are required to be a police officer in the state.

Amodei was among the state’s congressional lawmakers who staked out their positions on gun control measures, as pressure has been building for Congress to act. Survivors turned advocates of the mass shooting that took place on Valentines Day at a south Florida high school, which left 17 dead, have continued to call for a response from lawmakers, though both the House and Senate wrapped up their work weeks without any significant movement on the issue.

Amodei’s comments also come as Nevada is still processing the trauma of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 that resulted in 58 deaths — the single deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

With regard to arming teachers, he said that the move would increase the burden on teachers, who already have difficult jobs. “We are already putting a lot on those folks,” Amodei said, adding “let the cops do it.”

Although the Nevada Republican is a staunch supporter of gun rights, Amodei said he is open to possibly supporting adding school security personnel, banning bump stocks, raising the age to buy long guns and improving background checks.

“I’ll do anything that makes sense,” Amodei said, adding that he wants to see legislation before deciding how to vote. “Show it to me, let’s talk about it, let’s think about it and we’ll go from there.”

He signaled he would not likely support an assault weapons ban, noting that it would not be effective because of the plethora of other guns available.

Amodei voted for the last gun measure that the House passed in December which included language to ensure authorities report criminal history records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and penalize agencies that don’t report to the FBI.

That provision was spurred by the deadly November 2017 mass shooting in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church where the gunman, a dishonorably discharged Air Force airman with a history of violent domestic abuse, was allowed to buy a gun because the Air Force failed to put his name in the background-check database.

The package also included a provision that would require states to honor the concealed-carry permits of other states.

Nevada’s House Democrats -- Dina Titus, Jacky Rosen, and Ruben Kihuen -- favor gun control measures and voted against the NICS/concealed carry bill due to the inclusion of the concealed carry proposal. Titus tried to offer an amendment stripping the concealed carry provision from the bill, but was blocked by House GOP leaders.

But chances of the House taking up a gun bill seemed unlikely with Speaker Paul Ryan touting Tuesday the House’s passage of the NICS bill and calling on the Senate to take up the bill.

A gun debate in the Senate also seems doubtful with Republicans and Democrats unable to agree how to start the debate.

On Thursday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats support requiring background checks on gun show and Internet gun sales and allowing law enforcement or family members to get a court order to block an individual deemed dangerous from getting a gun. He also said they want a debate on an assault weapons ban.

But some Republicans want to pass a narrower bill. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas introduced legislation to make background checks more effective, similar to the provision in the House-passed measure.

When asked if the chamber would act Cornyn’s legislation, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “We’d love to do that at some point, we are hoping there is a way forward.”

But the schedule does not look good for a gun debate. Next week the Senate will take up a banking bill, with an anti-sex trafficking measure likely the week after, according to GOP aides. Then Congress’ attention will turn to passing legislation funding the government through Oct. 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year. The current stopgap funding bill expires March 23.

Although it’s unclear if the Senate will debate a gun measure, Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on Thursday introduced legislation banning bump stocks, a device used in the Las Vegas shooting that allows semi-automatic firearms to effectively operate as fully automatic weapons.

“The deadliest shooting in modern American history was due in large part to bump stocks, a device designed to inflict the most number of casualties in the shortest amount of time,” Cortez Masto said in a statement. “Our public spaces are becoming war zones because it is legal to simply walk into a store and buy a device that turns a semi-automatic weapon into a full-on machine gun. Congress must act immediately and ban bump stocks as we work to help save lives and prevent senseless gun violence.”

Although the Trump has ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to draft a rule banning bump stocks, it’s unclear if they have the authority.

Republican Sen. Dean Heller has also signaled his support for exploring a bump stock ban.

Following the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting, he signed on to a letter to the ATF asking the agency to review decisions that permitted the sale of bump stock devices.