Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a Kentucky radio station Thursday the Senate will put the issues of background check legislation in addition to "red flag" laws "front and center" when the body reconvenes after its summer recess, but it will not return early as Democrats are demanding.

"Those are two items that for sure will be front and center," McConnell told NewsRadio 840 WHAS.

McConnell made no commitments what would come to the Senate floor, suggesting that the negotiations are ongoing still.

But the Republican senator also said he won't call lawmakers back to Washington this month to address gun violence, following two mass shootings that left more than 30 people dead over the weekend.

"If we did that we would just have people scoring points and nothing would happen," McConnell said in the brief interview. "If we do it prematurely it will just be another frustrating experience for all of us and the public."

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