Sentences with phrase «to expand background checks»

These include expanded background checks of potential gun owners, and a ban on assault weapons.

I am a gun owner and support expanded background checks and extremely stiff penalties for straw purchasers and gun crimes.

They unveiled a more ambitious priority list, with expanded background checks and even a politically risky ban on assault weapons.

He's backed off from raising the age to buy firearms and greatly expanding background checks.

They include expanded background checks and more complete reporting to firearms dealers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement on Sunday called for expanding background checks for gun purchases — embracing a specific gun control measure in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people last month.

on Monday urged Ryan to set up a select committee on gun violence, and other Democrats issued calls for expanded background checks on gun purchases.

Burr was among the 46 senators who voted in April against expanding background checks for gun sales.

In the House, Rep. Mike Thompson (D - CA) has a filed a discharge petition for his bipartisan proposal with Rep. Peter King (R - NY)-- a congressional maneuver that could force the speaker of the House to bring up a vote on a bill that gives states resources to expand background checks system and closes a number of gun sale loopholes for guns sold online or at gun shows.

But it could help Senate candidates in battleground states target both base and independent voters, who polling shows overwhelmingly favor expanded background checks.

It wouldn't expand background checks, but it would require federal agencies to report people's criminal records into the federal background - check system in a modest effort to make it more expansive.

Lawmakers this year pursued a range of new gun control measures, such as a bill that would expand background checks in New York to 10 days, following a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people on Feb. 14, part of a nationwide outcry on the issue.

Proponents of expanding background checks for gun purchases formally kicked off a campaign in Maine — one of two key national races this year pitting a group co-founded by billionaire former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg as a response to mass shootings in 2014 against the group it was meant to target — the NRA.

Various legislation aimed at restricting magazine capacity, banning some «assault - style» guns, and expanding background checks failed to advance through Congress last year in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Hours before the summit, Democrats called on Trump to back expanded background checks, throwing their weight behind a measure that failed to clear Congress after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

With every mass shooting, Republicans have been careful to avoid conversations around expanding background checks or imposing any kind of gun control measures, outside of arming more people.

Based on the report, he would consider expanding background checks, enacting gun - violence restraining orders, which would keep guns from people accused of domestic violence; possibly banning «bump - fire» conversion kits, which let semi-automatic rifles shoot like machine guns, and improving violence - prevention programs that would «detect signs of trouble ahead of time.»

Ultimately, organizations are going to have to expand background checks beyond fingerprinting and checking names against databases.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - New York) has openly supported Democratic bills including one that expands the background check requirement to gun shows and online purchases and another that would stop anyone who's been on the federal terrorism watch list in the past five years from purchasing a gun.

«Democrats can use [expanded background checks] to talk to swing voters in a very targeted way, to suburban mothers, and when you are targeting like that you've really got options,» one national Democratic strategist said.

But they added targeted communication on the issue with white suburban swing voters, who strategists say support measures such as expanded background checks, could help drive turnout with that segment of the electorate.

Rep. Steve Israel calls on the Republican - controlled Congress to pass legislation to close gun sale loopholes and expand background checks held outside of the Great Neck South Middle School in Great Neck, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.

In Colorado earlier this month, two state senators — including the Senate president, who is a former police chief and himself a gun owner — were recalled from office by voters for backing a bill implementing expanded background checks of gun purchasers.

Democrats in the State Assembly have passed their own package of reforms, including expanding background checks from three to 10 days and a «red flag» provision that would allow judges to block certain individuals deemed at risk of harming themselves or others from obtaining a weapon.

«Right now it doesn't look good,» New York Republican Rep. Peter King told CNN, summing up the chances that his bill - identical to the bipartisan compromise developed in the Senate expanding background checks for many gun sales - could pass in the House.

Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, backed the gun control package, which expanded background checks on gun purchases and limited the size of ammunition magazines, that passed the legislature earlier this year.

Cuomo said he will push, as part of the budget negotiations over the next two weeks, measures to take guns away from all convicted domestic violence offenders and expand the background check waiting period to 10 days.

«By expanding background checks to include private - party transfers, there is a higher chance that these policies will make it harder for felons and other prohibited persons to acquire firearms and commit violent crimes.»

Shortly after, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson called on congress to create a committee on gun violence, allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun violence and pass expanded background check legislation.

President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

In the House, Rep. Mike Thompson (D - CA) has a filed a discharge petition for his bipartisan proposal with Rep. Peter King (R - NY)-- a congressional maneuver that could force the speaker of the House to bring up a vote on a bill that gives states resources to expand background checks system and closes a number of loopholes for guns sold online or at gun shows.

For example, polling conducted in July by the Pew Research Center found 85 percent of Americans favor expanded background checks — the proposal the Obama administration has pushed since the 2012 Newtown shootings killed 26 students and teachers in an elementary school in Connecticut.

A polarized US Senate voted against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest mass shooting left 14 people dead in California.

Congress probably won't expand background checks: Gun - control advocates» No. 1 priority is to pass a law requiring any gun purchaser to undergo a comprehensive background check.

A Democratic - controlled Congress back in 2010 didn't have the political capital to pass gun laws (some Democrats have since said that was a mistake), and Congress failed to expand background checks in 2013 after the 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.

But most gun safety proposals — including expanding background checks for gun purchases, raising the minimum age for buying rifles to 21 from 18, banning assault - style weapons like the AR - 15 used by the gunman in Parkland and taking guns away from people deemed mentally unfit — appear to be going nowhere on Capitol Hill.

DEVELOPING: SENATOR STILL TRYING TO FIND VOTES FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS... Behind - the - scenes dealing over reviving stalled gun control legislation will get a push next week when Sen. Joe Manchin, a strong proponent of expanding background checks, plans to meet individually with lawmakers, a Senate source tells CNN.

Democrats cited polls showing broad public support for expanding background checks for firearms purchases and blocking suspected terrorists from buying guns.

In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

Expanding background checks is of particular importance to Americans.

Democratic Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Jon Tester of Montana voted against expanded background checks, while Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly voted with Republicans.

The three also helped to defeat a Democratic - sponsored bill to close the gun show loophole and expand background checks.

He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.

About Clinton's statement that she would, if necessary, use executive action to expand background checks, Trump said, «This is the behavior you could say of a dictator.

That prompted Democrats to clamor for legislation to expand background checks and prevent people on U.S. terrorism watch lists from buying guns.

The Toomey - Manchin proposal would expand background checks to internet sales and gun shows while maintaining exceptions for family and friends, as long as there's no online posting.

That led students to the state Capitol to demand new gun laws that would expand background checks, according to CBS affiliate WCAX 3.

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