Sentences with phrase «instituting universal background checks»

Deutch urged people in the audience to tweet House Speaker Paul Ryan to demand a vote in Congress on instituting universal background checks.

The ordinance also would institute universal background checks on buyers of firearms and challenges a 2011 state law pre-empting local governments from passing ordinances regulating guns.

They passed a resolution urging state and federal lawmakers to pass gun control measures, including restricting the sale of ammunition and gun modifiers, to ban assault weapons, to limit the number of firearms a person can own, and institute a universal background check.

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We will do more here in New York, but President Trump needs to mandate universal background checks that are done more thoroughly, institute a ban on assault weapons, and ban high - capacity magazines.»