Sentences with phrase «federal gun background check system»

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Federal law requires background checks for gun sales by licensed dealers, but there are holes in the system.

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.

And the Senate passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending package Friday that would encourage state and federal authorities to provide more information to the national gun background check system.

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.

Mentally Disabled Veterans and Guns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerGuns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerguns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerous.

Under current federal law, gun dealers must check a potential buyer's name in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System before selling a fircheck a potential buyer's name in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System before selling a firCheck System before selling a firearm.

MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg will make a major announcement regarding illegal guns and the federal background check system, his office said Saturday.

Mayor Bloomberg's office said he would make a major announcement about guns and the federal background check system.

The proposed amendment is intended to overturn a 1997 Supreme Court decision, Printz v. United States, which said states can't be forced to participate in the federal system of gun background checks, according to coverage of the book by the Associated Press and Business Insider.

They pointed to a measure included in a $ 1.3 trillion spending package that Congress passed early Friday — one that would incentivize state and federal authorities to report more data to the country's gun 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.

Congress passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending package on Friday that include a bill that incentivizes state and federal authorities to report more data to the country's gun background check system.

One exception is the Fix NICS Act, a modest measure that would offer incentives to states and federal agencies to improve reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, for gun purchasers.