Sentences with phrase «federal background check system»
«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system.»
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Republicans are talking about background checks, raising age limits on buying assault - style rifles, and maybe even beefing up the federal background check system — ideas that seemed unfathomable just a few months ago.
This is in part due to staffing issues; as Vox's German Lopez wrote, «the federal background check system is also notoriously underfunded, understaffed, and underresourced, allowing red flags to slip through.»
A New York Times analysis of mass shootings, for example, found mass shooters in Charleston, South Carolina, and Binghamton, New York, would have run into difficulty buying guns if the federal background check system was more thorough and better funded.
«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system,» Shah said.
They also folded a bill that strengthened the federal background check system into an omnibus spending bill passed in March.
Tenney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.
Currently the federal background check system does not prevent known and suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.
New York uses the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, meaning it can not modify on its own how the federal background check system works.
The lawmaker has also co-sponsored legislation that would improve the federal background check system and supports banning «bump stocks.»
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg will make a major announcement regarding illegal guns and the federal background check system, his office said Saturday.
Bloomberg wants the federal government to close loopholes in the federal background check system.
Mayor Bloomberg's office said he would make a major announcement about guns and the federal background check system.
Even this week, the White House said Monday Trump «is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system» for gun purchases and Tuesday the President said he has directed his attorney general to propose changes that would ban so - called bump stocks, which make it easier to fire rounds quicker.
«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system,» the White House said in a statement Monday morning.
«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system.»
Wasserman Schultz said their goal is to push for legislation to ban assault rifles and high - capacity magazines, and to get rid of the «loopholes» of the federal background check system.
The Republican president has since released a school safety plan that includes strengthening the federal background check system and helping states pay for firearms training for teachers, while assigning the buying - age issue to a commission to study.