Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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.

(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 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.

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.

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.

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!»

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.

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.

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.