Sentences with phrase «own background check systems»

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the Federal background check system.»

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 rule requires the SSA to add people from its database who have mental impairments preventing them from handling their own affairs to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

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.

It backs legislation in Congress that would provide more data to the background check system and calls for a ban on accessories like bump stocks that make firearms function more like automatic weapons.

These folks either didn't know or didn't remember that these companies opted out of the city after a vote last May preventing them from operating with only their own background check systems in place.

Case in point: the National Instant Criminal 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.

He also said he would support the banning of bump stocks and changing background check systems, among other measures.

«I personally am unwilling to face another family member who's lost a loved one as a result of these mass shootings that could be prevented by making sure the background check system works as Congress intended.»

Many agencies consistently fail to report criminal records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)-- the system gun sellers use to verify if someone is eligible to buy a gun.

This is in part due to staffing issues; as Vox's German Lopez wrote, «the federal background check system is also notoriously underfunded, understaffed, and underresourced, allowing red flags to slip through.»

The comment came after Trump suggested on Twitter he wanted to overhaul the background checks system.

A cornerstone of LaPierre's speech centered around the fact that the NRA says they've worked to try and fix the country's background check system by encouraging lawmakers to fight to incentivize states to enter records into the National Criminal Background Checks system.

Their proposal incentivizes state and federal agencies to report criminal offenses and other information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

«I personally am unwilling to face another family member who's lost a loved one as a result of one of these mass shootings that could be prevented by making sure the background check system works as Congress intended,» he said.

Rubio said he also supported the banning of bump fire stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons, and a bolstered background check system.

The nation's gun - buying background check system is supposed to keep firearms out of reach for dangerous individuals.

That is something the government can fix by appropriating more money toward the National Instant Criminal 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.

«While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the President is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system,» Shah said.

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.

Scalise was trying to win Trump's backing for a compromise to combine a modest bill meant to bolster reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, with a measure requiring all states to recognize concealed - carry permits issued by other states.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.

And officials do not always inform the F.B.I.'s National Instant Criminal Background Check System of things, like criminal convictions and mental illnesses, that could disqualify a person from buying a gun.

Every day we've let the current dysfunction in the background check system continue, lives are in jeopardy.

So let me ask you, should this be the way the background check system is used?

Florida has entered 141,042 mental health records into the national background check system, according to the Brady Campaign.

In addition to tightening the background check system, Cornyn has been open to a bill introduced by Sen. Feinstein that would ban bump stocks.

I mean we don't have a strong background check system.

And yet, Mr. Cruz was able to legally buy an AR - 15 because none of that information was in the background check system.

That is fixing our background check system to make sure that all information is actually getting in there.

The STOP School Violence Act might be just that, although House Republican leaders voiced some support for the Senate's Fix NICS Act, which would only reinforce existing laws requiring state and federal agencies to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Lawmakers have struggled to make even minor adjustments to background check systems.

Many agencies consistently fail to report criminal records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and this bill would increase enforcement of the rule and give states financial incentives to report.

But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.

They also folded a bill that strengthened the federal background check system into an omnibus spending bill passed in March.

Media never mentions I co-sponsored Safe Communities Safe Schools Act providing $ to report mental illness to background check system

So an expanded background check system would have minimal effect.

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

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.

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.

The governor also announced his intention to advance additional legislation to extend the waiting period for individuals who are not immediately approved to purchase a firearm through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System from three days to 10 days.

Until we such time as we have universal background checks, which is background checks at gun sales, background checks for secondary and tertiary (person - to person sales without a dealer), the background check system falls far short of its intended goal.»

Tenney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.

Currently the federal background check system does not prevent known and suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.

New York uses the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, meaning it can not modify on its own how the federal background check system works.

The bill also would require a twice - annual certification by all federal agencies, federal courts and state governments, in coordination with the Department of Justice, to verify that all relevant data has been reported and uploaded to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System regarding individuals who are not eligible to purchase firearms.

While no background check system — including the government's — is infallible, the fact is that virtually any bad actor can check into a hotel with no background check and no questions asked — and such bad actors have checked into hotels and we have all seen the tragic consequences.»