Sentences with phrase «gun background check»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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

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

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

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.

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

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«Part of that is conversation about policy, where are we going to go with gun safety, background checks, those are real conversations we need to have.»

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.

On the Democratic side, the appeal of stronger gun laws was evident in Clinton's attacks on rival Bernie Sanders over his past votes against background check laws and for limits on lawsuits against gun makers.

In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

The company is calling on lawmakers to take action on «common sense gun reform,» including measures to address mental health, improve background checks, raise the age to buy a gun, and ban bump stocks and other similar accessories.

For the full year in 2017, background checks by the FBI, a proxy for gun sales fell 8.4 % to 25.3 million.

He also laid out four other measures for Congress to consider: preventing people on the no - fly list from purchasing firearms, subjecting every gun buyer to a full background check, banning high - capacity magazines, and increasing the minimum age requirement to buy a rifle to 21.

FBI background checks, which give an indication of the state of U.S. gun sales, rose 1.1 percent in May from the prior year, according to adjusted data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

Citigroup Inc., the nation's fourth - largest bank, said in March it plans to prohibit retail chains that are its customers from offering bump stocks or selling guns to anyone who hasn't passed a background check or is younger than 21.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation strips its background checks data of applications for conceal - carry permits, typically made by people who already own guns, to give a better reflection of actual purchases.

However it does reflect trends in gun sales, and background checks tend to increase following gun - related tragedies.

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.

2015 was a record - breaking year for gun sales with 23.1 million background checks and, with every month so far in 2016 breaking records, we're on track to beat that this year.

Background checks are a strong proxy for monthly gun sales, whose figures manufacturers do not publicly release.

Trump also tweeted Tuesday about strengthening background checks, indicating that he may support modest gun control measures.

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.

The three also helped to defeat a Democratic - sponsored bill to close the gun show loophole and expand background checks.

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.

Congress rejected bills to tighten background checks on gun sales and ban military - style «assault weapons» in April 2013.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

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.

When it comes to doing background checks on people who want to buy a gun, Americans want a system with greater integrity.

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.

With Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton having admitted to gunning down eight people, killing six of them, Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Uber's background check system is under increased scrutiny by the media and its own customers.

The student organizers raised more than $ 3 million through an online GoFundMe campaign and worked with Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for universal background checks and other gun control measures.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

Seventy - four percent of NRA members support universal background checks for anybody who wants to buy a gun.

The president unveiled the specifics of his plan, explaining the newly clarified rules that narrow the types of individual «private» gun sellers that can sell guns without subjecting their buyers to a background checks.

Despite such assertions, though, earlier this week Trump revoked mandated background checks for people with mental health issues trying to buy guns.

GAO said from February 2004, when the background check system began checking the terror watch list, through 2015, 2,477 names of would - be gun and explosives buyers were on the watch list.

People purchasing guns from federally licensed firearms dealers must undergo background checks, and those transactions can be blocked if they fall into any of 10 categories.

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?»

If you've had your fingerprints taken as part of a background check to, say, get a driver's license or a job, or to buy a gun, the results likely live in the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).