Sentences with phrase «universal background checks»

Lawmakers today failed to pass even a mild form of universal background checks for weapons purchases.

Their goals vary, but most but agree on measures that have broad public support, such as universal background checks.

But in a mirror image of the findings on a gun ban, support for universal background checks often polls in excess of 90 percent.

But she also has principles, and leaves her top firm for the opposition when a powerful gun group asks her to devise messaging to turn women against universal background checks for gun ownership.

This bill would require stricter gun control laws and universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns.

But a measure requiring universal background checks for gun sales failed to pass through Congress.

The law also required almost universal background checks on gun sales in New York state.

The message then is the same now, Branson says: to demand better gun control, including universal background checks before gun sales, better safety for students and a ban on assault weapons.

Seventy - four percent of NRA members support universal background checks for anybody who wants to buy a gun.

Even following the school shooting in Newtown, the Senate failed to pass an amendment mandating universal background checks on sales of firearms.

(CNN)- President Barack Obama angrily chided lawmakers reluctant to back gun control legislation on Monday, saying the overwhelming support for measures like universal background checks among the American people should force action in Congress.

Schumer promised at the Brady Campaign's gala last November that he would introduce expanded universal background checks legislation in early 2016, as well as press for a floor vote in the Republican - controlled chamber.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said the bill is «a small step,» but said Democrats want to see universal background check legislation.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

Student organizers have raised more than $ 3 million through an online GoFundMe campaign and worked with Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates universal background checks and other gun control measures.

by Quinnipiac University found 66 percent supported stricter gun laws across all demographics, with 97 percent of respondents saying universal background checks should be mandatory.

Our lawmakers, ignoring the people's will, and acting like frightened children who must hide behind the skirts of their mothers, failed to pass even a mild form of universal background checks.

The only way the pipeline could be stopped, then, is if all states individually strengthen their gun laws or if the federal government passes a law that enforces stricter rules, from universal background checks like Chicago's to mandatory gun buyback programs like Australia's, across all states.

The Manchin - Toomey bill, the only gun legislation in Congress after Sandy Hook that came close to becoming law, didn't even establish universal background checks.

Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson joined Rubio for the announcement in Washington, D.C. Nelson said he backed the proposal, but he also ultimately wants universal background checks and more restrictions on assault weapons.

Congress needs to put universal background checks in the foreground and pass a sweeping gun control plan that includes them and gives judges the power to temporarily disarm potentially dangerous individuals, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Among their demands, participants want Congress to ban assault weapons, require universal background checks before gun sales and pass a gun violence restraining order law that would allow courts to disarm people who display warning signs of violent behavior.

«Let's be honest, I have not heard anyone explain how an improved background check system would necessarily have prevented a particular incident,» said Senator Patrick J. Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican who helped write a bill mandating near - universal background checks after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

A majority of Republicans back universal background checks, a ban on assault - style weapons, a federal database to track gun sales, prohibitions on people with mental illness, and barring people on no - fly or watch lists from buying firearms.

In a meeting at the White House with lawmakers, he seemed to enthusiastically endorse universal background checks, expressed support for some sort of renewed assault - weapons ban, and said he wanted to make it harder for mentally ill people to get a gun.

The people demand universal background checks.

Enforceable universal background checks, an end to gun trafficking, and prosecution of straw purchasers (when someone with a clean record buys a gun legally and then sells to someone who would pass a back ground check) are all commonsense measures we can take with action from our elected officials.

Representatives from both sides of the aisle are currently in discussions to determine how to legislate universal background checks and the scenarios where a person can not purchase a gun because they've been wrongly put on a watch list.

Schumer also appeared to reject the idea of raising the minimum age for gun purchases to 21, noting that without universal background checks, there would be ways around any age restrictions.

I believe we need universal background checks.

«They have obstructed universal background checks and are trying to force a «concealed carry» bill into law that is reckless and immoral,» said Cuomo said in a statement released by the state Democratic Committee.

A 2013 bill that called for universal background checks failed in the Senate.

For 14 - year - old Ava DiGilio, an eighth - grader at Westglades Middle School, that means universal background checks and some kind of limits on semi-automatic guns, if not an outright ban.

In accordance with the march, we have visited our state capital along with the nation's capital to urge congressman to support a ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines, and to advocate for strict universal background checks including closing gun show loopholes.

After the Parkland school shooting, President Trump vowed to defy the NRA and push for a comprehensive gun control bill that would raise the age limit to purchase rifles, impose near universal background checks and renew a ban on assault - style rifles.

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Even though the Quinnipiac poll found that 97 % of Americans support universal background checks, the momentum after gun massacres has a way of waning in subsequent weeks.

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

«I hope we can continue to work together on commonsense solutions, such as requiring universal background checks and getting assault rifles off our streets,» he said.

Beyond that, Schwartz said, support is even greater for other gun control measures that Democrats and Republicans did manage to agree on in the task force — including universal background checks for purchases of all guns, by 93 to 6 percent; and expanded permit requirements for guns.

Its CEO went even further by calling for a government ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks, increasing the minimum age for gun purchases, requiring expanded universal background checks, and closing the gun show loophole.

Asked about their thoughts on the Second Amendment, both Stankevich and McMurray said they support it — and that it is compatible with reasonable gun restrictions that they favor, such as universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.

«Her background in law enforcement and as an advocate for victims means her voice will carry weight in Washington as she advocates for universal background checks on all gun sales to prevent violent criminals, domestic abusers and the seriously mentally ill from buying guns, «Gunn Barrett said.

That law — which Senate Republican leadership supported, but many GOP state senators opposed — enacted universal background checks, restrictions on assault weapons, restrictions on the capacity of ammunition magazines, among other provisions.

Student leaders hope to raise gun control as a key issue during the November midterm elections, to build support for candidates who advocate universal background checks and complete bans the sale of assault - style weapons.

Because so many guns are purchased privately by individuals and brought into Chicago from places with more lax gun laws like Indiana, experts say universal background checks could actually make a difference in reducing gun violence in cities.

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

In addition to increasing voter registration, March for Our Lives would like to see a ban on high capacity magazines and assault weapons as well as the implementation of universal background checks, according to its website.

Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.