Senate Roll Call: Background checks for gun purchases
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday suggested tying enhanced background checks on gun purchases to immigration reform after two mass shootings within 13 hours shocked the country over the weekend. "Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong back...
"We're working on background checks. There are things we can do. But we already have very serious background checks. We have strong background checks. We can close up the gaps. We can do things that are very good and things that frankly gun owners want to have...
Multiple polls conducted over the years have shown that Americans overwhelmingly support additional background checks on would-be buyers for gun purchases. Fact Check Advertisement: On May 24, 2022, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers...
(CNN) -- Over 200,000 background checks for gun purchases were initiated on Black Friday, making this the second-highest day of checks ever, according to data released by the FBI. The data said 202,465 total checks were started Friday, falling short of the record set on2017's Black Fri...
Bloomberg voiced support for an assault weapons ban but argued that a national background check system for gun purchases would actually be a more effective way to curb gun violence. "The truth of the matter is only about 400 people a year get killed with assault weapons or high-capacity maga...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The White House said Monday two bills that enhance background check for gun purchases would be vetoed if passed by congress. "If H.R. 8, or H.R. 1112, are presented to the president, his advisors would recommend he veto the bill," it said in a st...
However, Miller said that the 1994 study focused primarily on whether respondents purchased their firearms from a federally licensed dealer. The new study, conducted by researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard University, asked directly about background checks, and 22 percent of gun owners sa...
But on one issue that has since become a top cause for gun control advocates (and the enemy of groups like the NRA), Bush’s policy choices may be out of step: background checks for gun purchases. RELATED:Bush is ‘loathed’ by the tea party ...
Universal background checks are one of the proposals that President Obama has called on Congress to pass as part of his proposal to combat gun violence in the wake of the massacre in a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December.