Sentences with phrase «gun buyers»

It limits assault - style weapons and requires more detailed background checks for gun buyers.

Their aim is to head off legislation that would require more regulations on prospective gun buyers.

He called for enhanced background checks on gun buyers, protection orders to keep guns out of the hands of people likely to harm others and community - based intervention programs.

Machine gun buyers have to go through a local, federally licensed dealer who must first take delivery, charging a fee of up to $ 200.

She'd also like a ban on assault - style weapons, stronger background checks for gun buyers, and raising the minimum age for buyers to 21.

Dick's kicked off the trend on Wednesday with an announcement that it would stop selling assault - style weapons and require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday that states should have access to federal no - fly and other terror watch lists in order to screen potential gun buyers.

Yet when Donald Trump nixed a rule that required exactly that — a requirement that mental health data be part of a national database to screen gun buyers — John Faso said absolutely nothing.

In fact, in 2013 and 2014, the number of successful gun buyers from the terror watch list rose to 94 percent — with 455 suspects purchasing firearms and just 30 being denied.

In Phoenix Arizona in 2009, the local ATF office was tracking a small group of gun buyers..

But gun sales have plummeted since President Trump won the election; many attribute the decrease to gun buyers believing that the Trump administration and a Republican - controlled Congress would be less inclined to pursue tougher gun - control measures.

On Tuesday, following the protests, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the federal background check database for gun buyers needed to be improved so that «red flags» could be better recognized, like mental health issues that were identified in the Parkland shooter, according to The Texas Tribune.

Va.) as they discuss reaching a bipartisan agreement that would expand background checks to more gun buyers.

Schumer pushed for legislation mandating universal background checks for gun buyers during a swing through Western New York yesterday.

Not a single gun buyer on the terror watch list was turned away because they posed a threat to America as a suspected terrorist.

In the video, a realistic looking gun store was set up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and potential first time gun buyers were invited in.

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.

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.

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.

Florida governor Rick Scott announced a school safety plan that would require gun buyers to be at least 21.

The President's proposed budget slashes critical funding that states like New York use to strengthen background reporting on potential gun buyers.

Congress may pass «Fix NICS» legislation to improve the F.B.I. database used to screen gun buyers, and maybe the federal government will ban «bump stocks.»

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

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.

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.

After a mass shooter massacred churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Tex., the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, was stirred to action, pledging legislation to bolster the nation's instant background check system for would - be gun buyers.

A pre-trial restriction barring gun possession might not have turned up on a background check for a gun buyer — risk protection orders do.

Federal background checks for prospective gun buyers, a measure of firearms sales in a country where such transactions are loosely tracked, slid 8 percent last year from 2016.

After the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., both Dick's and Walmart WMT, -0.13 % announced an end to assault weapon and high - capacity magazine sales, along with a requirement that gun buyers be age 21 or older.

On Wednesday, Trump backed or said he would consider tougher background checks for gun buyers, greater police power to seize guns from mentally disturbed people, the outlawing of «bump stock» devices and tighter age limits for buying rifles such as that used in Parkland.

Dick's Sporting Goods has just announced that they will stop selling assault - style rifles and require all gun buyers to be 21 years of age or older!

Prospective gun buyers would have to wait three days, or until a background check is completed, whichever is longer.

They want Congress to expanding background checks to all gun buyers and banning assault - style weapons, such as the AR - 15 used in the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 high school students in Parkland, Florida.

Their movement had a short, compelling name (Never Again), concise goals (more background checks for gun buyers), plans for a nationwide protest, a slew of media appearances and a handful of memorably viral speeches that took their message across the nation.

Most American do not want to ban all guns... but think some control over military style weapons is needed... and every gun owner and gun buyer should have a back ground check... and gun should be stored safely... Why do the Pro-Gun groups go crazy at the mention of gun control... most hunters I know have seen or met a person they think should not even own a gun... specially if they have had a few drinks... and get mad...

Mayors Against Illegal Guns reports that recent independent polls have found that 90 percent of North Carolinians support background checks for all gun buyers.

Even as he voiced support for proposals generally backed by Democrats — including expanded background checks and raising the age limit to 21 for some gun buyers — the president peppered his remarks with inaccurate facts about mass shootings and gun policy.

The Trump administration last night proposed providing some school personnel with «rigorous» firearms training and backed a bill to improve criminal background checks on gun buyers, but backpedaled on the idea of increasing the minimum age to buy certain firearms — a policy President Donald Trump had said he would support.

The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on expanded background checks for gun buyers — a centerpiece of broad gun legislation — but leading lawmakers said today that approval of the measure remained uncertain.

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.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is spending $ 50 million to build a grassroots network of women, and mothers in particular, called «Everytown for Gun Safety» that will focus on expanding background checks for gun buyers.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

Faso - who represents parts of the Hudson Valley and Capital Region - supports strengthening background checks for gun buyers, banning bump stocks and raising the age to purchase a firearm to 21.

Zeldin has said shifting the burden from the gun buyer to the government is necessary to protect Second Amendment rights.

Cuomo also said from day one he expected state lawmakers would be making technical changes to the law which also ensures background checks for gun buyers, tougher criminal penalties for illegal gun use and a mandatory life without parole sentence for killing a first responder.

Despite winning an endorsement from the National Rifle Association in her 2012 congressional campaign, Hochul praised the SAFE Act, passed under Cuomo, which beefs up background checks for gun buyers and toughens penalties for illegal gun users.

Sen's proposal grew out of a study, published last year in Preventive Medicine, that found that states with more extensive background checks for gun buyers had fewer firearm homicide and suicide deaths between 1996 and 2005.

The gun buyer, Cillian Murphy, is affiliated with the Irish Republican Army, and the gun seller, Sharlto Copley, hails from South Africa at the midpoint of apartheid.