Senate Roll Call: Background checks for gun purchases
"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...
already has "very, very strong background checks" for gun purchases, noting many of his supporters "are strong believers in the Second Amendment," marking another sign he is backing away from supporting expanded checks. In the wake of the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, the president...
President Trump on Friday called for “intelligent background checks” on gun purchases in response to a string of mass shootings across the country, expressing confidence that Congress would come together on action. “Frankly, we need intelligent background checks,” Trump told reporte...
The House is considering two bills Thursday morning that would expand background checks for gun purchases, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said his chamber will vote on. One of the bills, which passed in the chamber in a 227-203 vote, would require universal back...
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...
(NewsNation) —President Joe Bidenannounced an executive order Tuesday in Monterey Park, California, that aims to increase the number of background checks before gun purchases. Biden said the executive order directs the attorney general to push the U.S. as close to universal background checks ...
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday to discuss a new bill that would require background checks on all gun purchases, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) argued that President Trump’s favored border wall would make the U.S. safer than background checks and attempted to get the fathe...
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...
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...