Sentences with phrase «gun background»

The president also says he is open to supporting legislation that would make small improvements in the national gun background check system.

(WBEN / AP) In a compromise move that leaves local gun rights advocates and those who are pressing for more gun control both unhappy, President Donald Trump offered support Monday for an effort to strengthen the federal gun background check system.

The regulation required the Social Security Administration to disclose information about some of its beneficiaries with mental illness to the national gun background check system.

Or, I suppose, lack there of: Turner, according to the Queens Chronicle, won't take a position on a bill to strengthen gun background checks.

The FBI just updated its data on gun background checks, which is widely seen as the best proxy of how many guns are being sold in the US.

Schumer said Sunday that after Wednesday's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, it would be dangerous to undermine gun background checks.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y. says President Trump's proposed budget would slash funds for gun background check systems already in place.

Moore, a longtime gun control advocate, and Spurlock reviled Congress for rejecting expanded gun background checks.

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

A day earlier, Mr. Trump signaled that he was open to supporting legislation that would modestly improve the national gun background check system, and on Tuesday night, he posted on Twitter that Democrats and Republicans «must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!»

Democrats tried unsuccessfully to amend Republicans» first bill to include proposals to strengthen gun background checks, ban bump stocks and create a new court order of protection to bar people considered to be a danger to themselves or others from possessing or buying guns.

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.»

said the issue raised by the Florida shooting is that the FBI could have prevented the shooting and added he thought Congress «will get something done this year» on the gun background check system.

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.

Washington D.C. still can't agree on the use of intelligence information concerning terrorists when it comes to gun background checks.

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.

Yet Cruz was still able to pass the nation's gun background check system in February 2017 and obtain an AR -15-style semiautomatic rifle, one that he used to kill 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day.

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.

The only gun measure Trump has signed so far was last February, which revoked an Obama - era regulation that required the Social Security Administration to disclose information to the national gun background check system about certain people with mental illness on a quarterly basis.