Sentences with phrase «federal gun background checks»

The White House has also said Trump was looking at a bill that would strengthen federal gun background checks.

An Air Force review has found that the branch failed to report «several dozen» service members found guilty of violent offenses to the federal gun background check database, with representatives of the service telling the New York Times that the reporting failure that allowed disgraced airman Devin Patrick Kelley to purchase the firearms he used to murder 26 parishioners in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Nov. 5 «was not an isolated incident.»

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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.

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.

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.

Citibank's emphasis on background checks would require licensed firearms dealers to go beyond federal law and refuse to sell a gun to anyone if an instant background check lasts three business days without incriminating evidence being discovered against the would - be buyer.

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

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.

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.

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

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - New York) has openly supported Democratic bills including one that expands the background check requirement to gun shows and online purchases and another that would stop anyone who's been on the federal terrorism watch list in the past five years from purchasing a gun.

Rep. John Katko, a longtime gun rights supporter, said he will consider supporting changes in federal gun laws that would raise the minimum age to buy a firearm and require universal background checks for all gun sales.

«And those people that buy guns from private owners at a gun show have the responsibility, if they knowingly realize it, someone can not pass a background check or if they suspect that maybe they are mentally incompetent, it is a state felony and a federal felony.

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.

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.

Specifically, Team 26 is advocating for stronger background checks, making gun trafficking a federal crime, and the closing of loopholes that allow dangerous individuals to purchase guns.

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.

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.

The Democrats said at a lower Manhattan news conference with the Statue of Liberty in the backdrop that their preference is that the federal government add terror watch lists to the criteria used in background checks, but congressional efforts to mandate the cross-check have met pushback from gun advocates.

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.

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.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he introduced legislation to lengthen the waiting period to buy guns for people who aren't immediately approved by a federal background - check database.

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.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Katko, a longtime gun rights supporter, said Friday he will consider supporting changes in federal gun laws that would raise the minimum age to buy a firearm and require universal background checks for all gun sales.

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.

Instead he advocates three steps informed by research: requiring background checks for all U.S. gun sales, forbidding alcohol abusers and those convicted of violent misdemeanors from buying guns, and rewriting current federal restrictions on gun ownership to better capture people who are mentally ill and at risk of violence to themselves or others.

One major study published in JAMA in 2000 analyzed suicide and homicide data from 1985 to 1997 to evaluate the impact of the Brady Act, a 1994 federal law that requires background checks for people buying guns.

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.

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.

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.

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.