Sentences with phrase «for gun buyers»

It limits assault - style weapons and requires more detailed background checks for gun buyers.

She'd also like a ban on assault - style weapons, stronger background checks for gun buyers, and raising the minimum age for buyers to 21.

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.

Schumer pushed for legislation mandating universal background checks for gun buyers during a swing through Western New York yesterday.

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.

A working group led by Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering measures that would require universal background checks for gun buyers and track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, the newspaper said.

A pre-trial restriction barring gun possession might not have turned up on a background check for a gun buyer — risk protection orders do.

On Wednesday, Trump backed or said he would consider tougher background checks for gun buyers, greater police power to seize guns from mentally disturbed people, the outlawing of «bump stock» devices and tighter age limits for buying rifles such as that used in Parkland.

Their movement had a short, compelling name (Never Again), concise goals (more background checks for gun buyers), plans for a nationwide protest, a slew of media appearances and a handful of memorably viral speeches that took their message across the nation.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns reports that recent independent polls have found that 90 percent of North Carolinians support background checks for all gun buyers.

Even as he voiced support for proposals generally backed by Democrats — including expanded background checks and raising the age limit to 21 for some gun buyers — the president peppered his remarks with inaccurate facts about mass shootings and gun policy.

The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on expanded background checks for gun buyers — a centerpiece of broad gun legislation — but leading lawmakers said today that approval of the measure remained uncertain.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is spending $ 50 million to build a grassroots network of women, and mothers in particular, called «Everytown for Gun Safety» that will focus on expanding background checks for gun buyers.

Faso - who represents parts of the Hudson Valley and Capital Region - supports strengthening background checks for gun buyers, banning bump stocks and raising the age to purchase a firearm to 21.

Cuomo also said from day one he expected state lawmakers would be making technical changes to the law which also ensures background checks for gun buyers, tougher criminal penalties for illegal gun use and a mandatory life without parole sentence for killing a first responder.

Despite winning an endorsement from the National Rifle Association in her 2012 congressional campaign, Hochul praised the SAFE Act, passed under Cuomo, which beefs up background checks for gun buyers and toughens penalties for illegal gun users.

Sen's proposal grew out of a study, published last year in Preventive Medicine, that found that states with more extensive background checks for gun buyers had fewer firearm homicide and suicide deaths between 1996 and 2005.

The overwhelming majority of Florida voters polled in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre want stricter gun laws, including universal background checks for gun buyers, a higher minimum age for gun purchasers, and an outright ban on assault - style rifles.

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

Their priorities: make it difficult to buy semi-automatic weapons and make background checks for gun buyers «very extensive,» Grady said.

Jaclyn Corin, the junior - class president at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, described the day of the shooting and days since, and vowed the lives won't be lost in vain — if lawmakers implement «common sense gun laws» including bans on assault weapons and high capacity magazines and universal background checks for gun buyers.

Requiring background checks for all gun buyers is supported by 96 percent of...