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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.

We need to digitize gun - sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun - show loopholes and straw - man purchases, ban high - capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.

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.

Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.

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.

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.

It also called for private sale and gun show loopholes to be closed and universal background checks to be enacted, as well as a universal database of those banned from buying guns.

The students marching didn't expect a perfect world either, but they spoke about what they described as commonsense gun reform — universal background checks, assault weapons bans, waiting periods.

But in a mirror image of the findings on a gun ban, support for universal background checks often polls in excess of 90 percent.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases...

In an interview with Rachel Maddow, Cuomo urged the national Democratic Party to go all in on real gun control solutions — universal background checks, banning assault weapons and extended magazines, etc. — that can actually have a real impact.

We will do more here in New York, but President Trump needs to mandate universal background checks that are done more thoroughly, institute a ban on assault weapons, and ban high - capacity magazines.»

Rachel supports banning the future sales of assault rifles, enacting universal background checks and providing funding to research gun violence.

Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.

Among other goals, the president said he aims to require a «universal background check» for everyone buying a gun (about 40 % of gun sales are not covered now), a prohibition on the sale of «military - style assault weapons,» a ban on high - capacity ammunition magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets, and a push for better mental health care.

At the Town Hall, Rubio said he supports universal background checks, raising the minimum age to purchase guns to 21 and banning bump stocks that allow rifles to fire more rapidly.

Board members passed a 24 - point resolution Tuesday, calling for Congress to ban assault weapons, require universal background checks and broaden the perimeters of school gun - free zones.

What's new: The Broward County school board passed a 24 - point resolution Tuesday, calling for Congress to ban assault weapons, require universal background checks and broaden the perimeters of school gun - free zones.

The overwhelming majority of Florida voters polled in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre want stricter gun laws, including universal background checks for gun buyers, a higher minimum age for gun purchasers, and an outright ban on assault - style rifles.

The students, he said, are demanding an assault weapons ban, prohibition of sales of high - capacity magazines and universal background checks.

Examples: a no - exceptions ban on military - style weapons and high - capacity magazines; universal, expanded background checks; limits on monthly purchases; technology that allows only owners to fire guns.

Its CEO went even further by calling for a government ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks, increasing the minimum age for gun purchases, requiring expanded universal background checks, and closing the gun show loophole.

They passed a resolution urging state and federal lawmakers to pass gun control measures, including restricting the sale of ammunition and gun modifiers, to ban assault weapons, to limit the number of firearms a person can own, and institute a universal background check.

Among their demands, participants want Congress to ban assault weapons, require universal background checks before gun sales and pass a gun violence restraining order law that would allow courts to disarm people who display warning signs of violent behavior.

A recent Politico - Morning Consult poll showed that 88 percent of Americans now support universal background checks, 81 percent think a person should be at least 21 to buy a gun, 70 percent favor a ban on high - capacity magazinesand 68 percent think assault - style weapons should be banned.

Student leaders hope to raise gun control as a key issue during the November midterm elections, to build support for candidates who advocate universal background checks and complete bans the sale of assault - style weapons.

After the Parkland school shooting, President Trump vowed to defy the NRA and push for a comprehensive gun control bill that would raise the age limit to purchase rifles, impose near universal background checks and renew a ban on assault - style rifles.

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, a Democratic candidate for governor, was disappointed that the legislature failed to pass an assault - weapons ban and universal background checks.