Sentences with phrase «gun background check database»

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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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 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.

The background check bill, which seeks to improve the existing database used to prevent gun purchases by criminals and the mentally ill, is a small nod in the direction of gun control that does nothing to close loopholes that allow millions of gun sales without a background check.

It also called for private sale and gun show loopholes to be closed and universal background checks to be enacted, as well as a universal database of those banned from buying guns.

When he tried to buy guns after his release from a military prison, his conviction was not in the database used to conduct background checks, and the purchases went through.

Cuomo said he won't rush for the completion of a stalled database for background checks on ammunition sales that was part of New York's controversial gun - control law in 2013.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a beating from fellow Democrats and left - leaning entities like the Working Families Party for agreeing to suspend the creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks — a provision of the controversial gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

The move will mean New York, along with New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island will enter into a memorandum of understanding to share information, including the creation of a multi-state database that is meant to supplement the National Instant Criminal Background Check System as well as trace and intercept guns used in crimes.

The database would allow background checks by ammunition dealers like gun stores or sporting goods outlets.

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.

Talks are amidst, with reports suggesting that senators are considering banning bump stocks (the device allowing Paddock to convert his semiautomatic rifles into an automatic fire) and halting the bill which will make it easier for Americans to buy gun silencers; but even though more than one person a day dies due to gun violence in the US [i], Trump quietly revoked Obama's bill and blocked the Social Security Administration from reporting mentally impaired recipients to a national background - check database.

The students want comprehensive background checks, an ATF searchable database, funds for research on gun violence, a ban on high - capacity magazines and an assault weapons ban..