Sentences with phrase «against expanding background checks»

A polarized US Senate voted against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest mass shooting left 14 people dead in California.

Democratic Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Jon Tester of Montana voted against expanded background checks, while Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly voted with Republicans.

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Ultimately, organizations are going to have to expand background checks beyond fingerprinting and checking names against databases.

But the Democratic - controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by the president that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases to gun shows and online sales.

Proponents of expanding background checks for gun purchases formally kicked off a campaign in Maine — one of two key national races this year pitting a group co-founded by billionaire former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg as a response to mass shootings in 2014 against the group it was meant to target — the NRA.

Long Island Rep. Kathleen Rice described a new tactic to try to pass a bill to expand background checks to all commercial sales of guns despite the odds against it: Don't talk about what the legislation is.

The law, known as the SAFE Act, expanded the state's ban on purchasing new assault weapons, established more comprehensive background checks for gun and ammunition purchases, and toughened laws against illegal gun possession.

WASHINGTON — Long Island Rep. Kathleen Rice Wednesday described a new tactic to try to pass a bill to expand background checks to all commercial sales of guns despite the odds against it: Don't talk about what the legislation is.

Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, backed the gun control package, which expanded background checks on gun purchases and limited the size of ammunition magazines, that passed the legislature earlier this year.