Sentences with phrase «gun at the background»

When the auto - aim fails, you can try to free - aim, but sometimes Jason simply refuses to point his gun at the background.

Not exact matches

NICS doesn't reflect the exact number of firearms sold in the U.S. — it doesn't account for people purchasing multiple guns at one time, gun sales that don't involve a federally licensed dealer, or buyers who don't pass background checks.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

At one point during the documentary, Couric asks representatives of the Virginia Citizens Defense League a question: «If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?»

Currently, only federally licensed gun dealers need to conduct background checks before making sales, and sales between family members, friends, and neighbors go unchecked — including online or at gun shows.

The cornerstone of the president's plan is a background check requirement for guns purchased from dealers even if they're bought online or at gun shows.

Democrats wasted no time quickly outlining their top three priorities: background checks, the ability to take guns away from those who pose a «clear danger,» and at least a debate on banning assault weapons such as the AR - 15 used at the Florida high school.

Not long after 20 young children and 6 adults were gunned down by a lone assailant at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut the U.S. Senate also rejected tighter background check legislation.

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Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Colorado required background checks for private gun sales and limited magazines after 12 people were killed at a movie theater in 2012.

Closing the loophole in our background check law that allows dangerous people who shouldn't be allowed to purchase firearms to slip through the cracks and buy guns online or at gun shows.

On Wednesday, Manchin, who represents West Virginia, and Toomey, from Pennsylvania, announced an agreement that broadens background checks to include private purchases at gun shows and on the Internet.

We need conversations about loopholes in the laws that allow the sale of weapons at gun shows and by private dealers without proper background checks.

my wife is from Tulsa, and her family is apocalyptic that there is talk about banny AR - 15s or bump stocks or raising the min age to buy a gun or even having a background check at a gun show.

Now how effective the guns are at protecting individual citizens is a different matter for a different question, but this is a great summary of the legal background.

Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group is launching a six - figure media campaign today to push for background checks at gun shows.

The vendors at gun shows are already required to run background checks same as when they are at their places of business.

The attorney general's office developed the guidelines after an investigation in 2011 found that private sales at gun shows often occurred without legally mandated background checks.

And when asked about the Las Vegas shooting at an appearance in Albany on Monday, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand said Congress should consider banning assault weapons, expanding background checks and cracking down on gun trafficking.

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

«Senate Democrats will call for ending the loopholes that allow people to buy a gun online or at a gun show without having to pass a background check.

«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.

Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.

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.

At the time, the president, a member of the National Rifle Association who has strong political support from gun owners, said he would look at stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposeAt the time, the president, a member of the National Rifle Association who has strong political support from gun owners, said he would look at stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposeat stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposes.

They can do the right thing today by making sure that every gun sale at their shows is subject to a background check.

Mayor Bloomberg today unveiled several videos shot during an undercover investigation at an Arizona gun show that depict the sale of a Glock pistol with a 33 - round extended magazine — just like the weapon used in the Tucson tragedy — being legally purchased with no background check.

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.

Until we such time as we have universal background checks, which is background checks at gun sales, background checks for secondary and tertiary (person - to person sales without a dealer), the background check system falls far short of its intended goal.»

But over time, Higgins said he came to see the NRA responding to reasonable gun control measures in a knee - jerk way, too, and blocking sensible measures such as background checks for those who buy weapons at gun shows.

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.

The state's top lawyer also touted his multi-billion-dollar relief packages he had wrung from Bank of America and JP Morgan, his prosecution of under - paying employers and his effort to mandate background checks for purchases at gun shows.

The measures, introduced at a news conference by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Democratic lawmakers flanked by gun control advocates, are meant to close loopholes for gun ownership for people who are deemed a serious risk, those who have been convicted of domestic violence, expand background checks and end the legal possession of bump stocks.

«The right time is now» to talk about how to prevent more violence like Sunday's massacre in Orlando, Ross said Monday at an event in Kannapolis, North Carolina, adding that background checks could be a way to prevent terrorists and people who have a history of violence from getting guns.

It would tighten up existing background checks and create new background checks for people who buy guns online or at gun shows.

With mass shootings dominating the news at regular intervals, Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have pursued legislation to expand background checks, prevent those on the terrorism watch list from buying guns, and impose stiff penalties for gun straw purchasing and trafficking.

In March 2015, she co-sponsored a bill requiring background checks for all gun sales, aiming to close loopholes on purchasing guns at shows and on illegal websites.

GOP senators on Wednesday rejected four bills proposed by Democrats that would strengthen background checks, ban «bump stocks» that turn semiautomatic guns into machine guns, and let courts keep guns away from people at risk of hurting others.

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.

Customers at Osage County Guns in Belle, Mo., for example, can walk into the store and walk out with a gun if they pass the FBI's instant background check, says John Dawson, the store's chief technical officer.

After all, Brady had a gaping hole: It didn't require background checks for guns bought from private sellers (including those at gun shows).

There are a few good things about it, the gunfights were gritty and non exaggerated proving that Mann can still do decent gun play that is more accurate opposed to the infinite clip that we are used to seeing in many other movies, the cinematography is also very good and it was really nice to just look at the beautiful landscapes and backgrounds of the locations they filmed in Hong Kong and Jakarta.

«With my dance background, if I'm taught well, I'm pretty much able to do anything... I trained with [stunt coordinator] Garrett [Warren] for eight months, doing martial arts and weight - lifting... The Losers, every location was a warehouse or a hangar, and we're just whooping out guns and there's stuff firing at you.

Gameplay in Wild Guns Reloaded involves around your character shooting at any threat on a static screen where you see the enemies keep popping out left and right, either hidden in the background, or rushing to attack you directly on screen.

Under the initiative, known as Amendment 22, Colorado law - enforcement officials would have up to three days to conduct background checks on prospective gun buyers at such shows.

Pretend gun - free zones, where law - abiding adults (who pass a fingerprint - based background check and a safety training class) are still disarmed, are magnets for evildoers who know they will be able to murder at will with little threat of being fired upon.