Sentences with phrase «background checks on gun»

The council also removed specific demands that called for «banning military - grade assault rifles; requiring background checks on all gun purchases; banning the sale of accessories and add - ons such as bump stocks that circumvent the ban on automatic firearms; and prohibiting the sale of firearms to individuals on a terrorist watch list.»

The primary goals: to ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines and create laws that require background checks on every gun purchase.

When a popular bill mandating near - universal background checks on gun purchases died in the Senate, it was a wake - up call for many.

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.

Moderator Liz Benjamin noted that recent polls show 55 percent of Americans favor stricter gun laws, and 92 percent favor background checks on gun sales.

A bill providing for universal background checks on gun purchases, that was introduced following the Newtown School Shooting, failed to pass the Senate last year.

«Her background in law enforcement and as an advocate for victims means her voice will carry weight in Washington as she advocates for universal background checks on all gun sales to prevent violent criminals, domestic abusers and the seriously mentally ill from buying guns, «Gunn Barrett said.

The law also required almost universal background checks on gun sales in New York state.

The White House is finalizing a new executive action that would expand background checks on gun purchases, according to one of President Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, amid growing outcry over last week's deadly shooting at a South Florida high school, signaled his support Monday for bipartisan legislation aimed at bolstering federal background checks on gun buyers.

He called for enhanced background checks on gun buyers, protection orders to keep guns out of the hands of people likely to harm others and community - based intervention programs.

The Trump administration last night proposed providing some school personnel with «rigorous» firearms training and backed a bill to improve criminal background checks on gun buyers, but backpedaled on the idea of increasing the minimum age to buy certain firearms — a policy President Donald Trump had said he would support.

President Donald Trump backed a U.S. Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

We need a SAFE act that includes all guns, especially hand guns and mandates background checks on all gun sales everywhere.

Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases — a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80 %...

Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases — a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80 % of the American public and President Obama — we've decided to rerun an article published in January on the complex issue of guns, the regulation of them and how Christians should wrestle with this issue.

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

He also declared his support for background checks on all gun purchases, a ban on bump - stocks, and a ban on firearm purchases by those who have been declared mentally ill.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

The primary goals: to ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines and create laws that require background checks on every gun purchase.

Congress rejected bills to tighten background checks on gun sales and ban military - style «assault weapons» in April 2013.

Not exact matches

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In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

The company is calling on lawmakers to take action on «common sense gun reform,» including measures to address mental health, improve background checks, raise the age to buy a gun, and ban bump stocks and other similar accessories.

He also laid out four other measures for Congress to consider: preventing people on the no - fly list from purchasing firearms, subjecting every gun buyer to a full background check, banning high - capacity magazines, and increasing the minimum age requirement to buy a rifle to 21.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

2015 was a record - breaking year for gun sales with 23.1 million background checks and, with every month so far in 2016 breaking records, we're on track to beat that this year.

He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

When it comes to doing background checks on people who want to buy a gun, Americans want a system with greater integrity.

An Air Force review has found that the branch failed to report «several dozen» service members found guilty of violent offenses to the federal gun background check database, with representatives of the service telling the New York Times that the reporting failure that allowed disgraced airman Devin Patrick Kelley to purchase the firearms he used to murder 26 parishioners in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Nov. 5 «was not an isolated incident.»

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

GAO said from February 2004, when the background check system began checking the terror watch list, through 2015, 2,477 names of would - be gun and explosives buyers were on the watch list.

And the ceaselessly terrified crowd that hoards guns every time it hears the phrase «background check» is bombarding Slide Fire's site to get its hands on the apparently soon - to - be-banned device.

If Trump does decide to take a risk and lead the charge on an issue that would require tough votes by conservative lawmakers — perhaps on strengthening background checks for gun purchases — it would be a departure for his presidency

Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

The company is also pressing the government to enact gun - reform measures, including a ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks; raising the minimum age to 21 for gun purchasing; universal background checks that include scrutiny of mental - health information and previous run - ins with the law; and an end to the background - check loophole for gun show and private sales.

A majority of Republicans back universal background checks, a ban on assault - style weapons, a federal database to track gun sales, prohibitions on people with mental illness, and barring people on no - fly or watch lists from buying firearms.

But the failure to act on the instant background check and bump - stock bills underscored that even on the most modest of gun measures, Congress is simply incapable of a response.

Democrats wasted no time quickly outlining their top three priorities: background checks, the ability to take guns away from those who pose a «clear danger,» and at least a debate on banning assault weapons such as the AR - 15 used at the Florida high school.

For Trump, Obama is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't: In this mtg with lawmakers on guns, Trump tells Sens. Toomey & Manchin they cldn't pass their 2013 background check bill because Obama didn't give support.

said the issue raised by the Florida shooting is that the FBI could have prevented the shooting and added he thought Congress «will get something done this year» on the gun background check system.

America's attention to gun control often focuses on a few specific measures: universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illnesses buying firearms, and an assault weapons ban, for example.

Citibank's emphasis on background checks would require licensed firearms dealers to go beyond federal law and refuse to sell a gun to anyone if an instant background check lasts three business days without incriminating evidence being discovered against the would - be buyer.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

The Broward County School Board has formally entered the gun debate, passing a resolution Tuesday that calls for tougher federal background checks and a ban on semiautomatic weapons.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

When Connecticut passed a law requiring background checks on all handgun sales, they saw a 40 percent reduction in gun homicides.

And in the past, lawmakers have been extremely slow to take up any type of gun control legislation, even when there's bipartisan consensus on things like background checks.