Sentences with phrase «federal background checks»

Lawmakers had been making incremental progress on a bill to boost participation in the existing federal background check bill.

Lawmakers had been making incremental progress on a bill to boost participation in the existing federal background check bill.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement that Trump spoke with Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas about a bipartisan bill to improve federal background checks for prospective gun buyers.

After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.

To estimate gun sales during the months after the shooting, Levine and McKnight looked at the number of federal background checks on individuals seeking to purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer as a proxy.

If the instant federal background check doesn't clear the way for the sale for various reasons, including questions raised about the purchaser, current law allows a delay of up to three days to possess the firearm.

Trump has announced his support for modest improvements in federal background checks for gun buyers, the Sun Sentinel's David Fleshler reports.

In recent months, demand for guns — judging from federal background checks conducted at the point of sale, which are considered a rough approximation of purchases — seems to be perking up.

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.

It also bans high - capacity magazines, requires federal background checks on private gun sales and imposes felony penalties for illegal gun possession.

That's the essence of the problem, that the NICS federal background check is very limited,» said Cuomo, adding how officials in the four gun violence coalition states worry about weapons purchased in other states being brought across their borders.

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.

The legislation, signed into law in the 1990s by Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, in part mandates federal background checks on those who buy firearms.

Teachers and other school personnel working with scholarship recipients must undergo federal background checks

Utah requires anyone applying for teacher certification to submit to a Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and federal background check through fingerprinting.

I read your post about the guy at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage who was fired over a 50 - year - old conviction for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a laundromat's washing machine under the new federal background check policy for banks.

Sharp spikes in federal background checks typically occur after tragedies such...

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After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.

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.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

Federal background checks for prospective gun buyers, a measure of firearms sales in a country where such transactions are loosely tracked, slid 8 percent last year from 2016.

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system.»

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.

On Tuesday, following the protests, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the federal background check database for gun buyers needed to be improved so that «red flags» could be better recognized, like mental health issues that were identified in the Parkland shooter, according to The Texas Tribune.

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system,» Shah said.

A vast majority of guns used in 19 recent mass shootings were bought legally and with a federal background check.

They also folded a bill that strengthened the federal background check system into an omnibus spending bill passed in March.

«Facing calls to curb child se - x abuse within its churches, in June the Southern Baptist Convention — the largest U.S. religious body after the Catholic Church — urged local hiring committees to conduct federal background checks but rejected a proposal to create a central database of staff and clergy who have been either convicted of or indicted on charges of molesting minors.

The state also requires that private gun sales are subject to federal background checks to determine if the buyer is a felon or otherwise prohibited from having a gun.

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.»

This took place back in 2006 - 07, and was widely viewed as the reason Carrion abruptly had a change of heart about deparing NYC politics for D.C.. His federal background check and security clearance took quite a while, if I remember correctly.

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.

Similar to most US states, Ohio requires anyone applying for Ohio educator certification to submit to a state and federal background check.

All Alaska teaching applicants are required to complete a background check with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and a federal background check with the FBI.

Every interested person was required to pass a Federal Background Check.

A sealed record is sealed in the publics eye but... I had a Federal Background check done and those records are not sealed from FBI, Law Enforcement, and Social Security.

All of our instructors are licensed by the State of NJ MVC, and are subjected to federal background checks.

All of our instructors have been individually taught by the owner, certified by the State of New Jersey, completed a defensive driving course and have passed a full comprehensive State and Federal background check.

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.