Sentences with phrase «closing gun show loopholes»

The three also helped to defeat a Democratic - sponsored bill to close the gun show loophole and expand background checks.

They include enacting the nation's toughest assault weapons ban, closing the gun show loophole that allows private transactions without a background check and banning high capacity magazines.

In her op - ed, one thing state Rep. Katie Edwards - Walpole points out that is not in Senate plans is «a constitutional amendment that allowed individual counties to close the gun show loophole, the loophole which allows private gun sales to take place at gun shows without a background check.»

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.

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His main reform is to close a loophole that lets occasional, unlicensed gun dealers like online and gun show retailers dodge background checks for gun buyers.

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.

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.

Closing the loophole in our background check law that allows dangerous people who shouldn't be allowed to purchase firearms to slip through the cracks and buy guns online or at gun shows.

The «gun show loophole» is incredibly irresponsible, and needs to be closed immediately.

Finally, we need to close gun loopholes such as those for gun shows and the mentally unstable.

It would also close loopholes that allow people to skirt checks by purchasing weapons at gun shows and through private sales, Cuomo said.

Schneiderman touted his record, which he says includes getting back pay owed to fast food workers, cracking down on opioid and heroin abuse, and convincing gun show operators to voluntarily close legal loopholes and require background checks for purchases.

The youth at Pathway, a school within East that works with students to help them graduate on time, went to support the Florida students who want a national ban on the sales of assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines and want to close loopholes about sales of firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

In March 2015, she co-sponsored a bill requiring background checks for all gun sales, aiming to close loopholes on purchasing guns at shows and on illegal websites.

Whether it's regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons (like those used last year in the Las Vegas), or through background check for all gun sales (closing Florida's gun show loophole allowing firearm sales without background checks) or enacting legislation to keep firearms out the hands of people with mental challenges, enough is enough — it is past time for bipartisan agreement on a course of action to protect our children.

«Nationally, I think there needs to be things like assault rifle bans but also closing the gun - show loophole... and making it so background checks aren't time limited,» said student Eamon Walsh as he left the governor's office.

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