Background Checks - Page 6

Sens. John Cornyn, Chris Murphy, and Dianne Feinstein announced a new gun control bill which centers on background checks for gun purchases.

On Wednesday, NBC News reported that Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) were nearing a “bipartisan deal on gun control.”

Senate Democrats can push more gun control but Libertarians are unlikely to comply with any new gun law that makes its way onto the books.

Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts claims Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) opposition to universal background checks is equivalent to opposing laws to stop the murder of small children.

A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine claims that California firearm injuries jump as a result of Nevada gun shows.

Because Nevada is one of the states in which Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety campaigned relentlessly for universal background checks in 2016, it is important to note that such checks would have done absolutely nothing to prevent the October 1 Las Vegas attack.

During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that universal background checks would save lives, but “many other things” would have to be done as well. Pelosi said that if background checks were

News of a so-called “Trump Slump” in background checks for gun sales was short-lived and has now been laid to rest via FBI figures that show August 2017 shattered the previous August background check record.

Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt says Speaker Paul Ryan’s inaction on concealed carry reciprocity gives “dirtbags” the upper hand.

Amid all the establishment media chatter about a “Trump Slump” in gun sales, National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) Mike Bazinet says the evidence indicates 2017 could be the second or third highest year for background checks in the past two decades.

The first six months of 2017 witnessed the second largest number of firearm background checks ever recorded for the first half of a given year, according to the FBI.

The New York Daily News reports the man who attacked Bronx Lebanon Hospital on June 30 acquired his firearm at a gun store just over a week before the attack.

David Frum apologized for referencing murdered Newtown children in reacting to pro-Second Amendment news following the Alexandria attack.

After police took out Alexandria attacker James Hodgkinson, they discovered an assassination list consisting of Republicans in his pocket.

On June 15, the ATF confirmed that the Alexandria attacker bought his guns from a Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs), which means he had to pass a background check before taking possession of the firearms.

On June 15–the day after the attack on GOP House and Senate members in Alexandria–the New York Times noted that Illinois’ strict gun control laws did not prevent the attacker from acquiring guns.

On June 14, the Chicago Tribune reported that 66-year-old James T. Hodgkinson, who opened fire on Republican lawmakers, purchased “at least three guns” from “a gun dealer” in Belleville, Illinois, his place of residence.

FBI figures show May 2017 shattered the background check records set under Barack Obama during May 2015 and 2016.

Pennsylvania State Rep. Jamie Santora (R-163) is pushing a ban on private gun sales nearly identical to the ones Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action pushed in Washington state, Maine, and Nevada.

Months after the 19-month streak of record-breaking background checks came to an end, the number of background checks for April 2017 reached near-record levels.

The election of President Trump – coupled with Republican control of the House and Senate – shows that “Democrats are good for gun sales.”

The latest “Injury Facts” report from the National Safety Council shows accidental firearm deaths in 2015 were the lowest they have been in any year since 1903.

Democrat Representatives Brad Schneider (D-IL-10) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) are pushing legislation to require law-abiding citizens to pass a background check before assembling a gun from a parts kit at home.

A March 2 Los Angeles Times opinion column suggests Mexican criminal groups can arm themselves at U.S. gun shows and flea markets and calls for President Trump to fix this by instituting more gun control on Americans.

The latest figures from the FBI show that background checks in January were approximately 500,000 lower than the record level of 2,545,802 set in January 2016.

In the latest example of fake news coming from the mainstream media or those favorable to it, Bloomberg is reporting that House Republicans’ vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban is equivalent to a vote for “guns for the mentally incompetent.”

Widener’s Reloading and Shooting Supply reports that ammunition purchases in the Los Angeles County metro area have surged nearly 400 percent in the two months since the November 8 passage of Proposition 63.

Nearly nine years after mocking “bitter” Americans who “cling to guns or religion,” President Obama used a column in the Harvard Law Review to assert that prayer in America is insufficient; America needs gun control.

Since the November 8, 2016 election of Donald Trump, the Dow Jones has surged — but the prices of gun stocks have fallen.

Newly-released FBI figures show that the number of background checks conducted for gun purchasers in 2016 were so high they actually beat the previous annual record by more than 4 million.

South Dakota is preparing to issue an enhanced concealed carry permit in hopes of allowing permit holders to forgo background checks when buying a firearm.

Gun Ownership has nearly doubled since 1993, yet in the 23 years between then and now, the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that violent crime has fallen 77 percent.

December 8, 2016 marks the 36th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, and his widow Yoko Ono is using the day to push more gun control for Americans.

Already, more background checks for firearm purchases have been conducted in 2016 than any year in history.

The number of background checks for gun purchases performed on Black Friday 2016 broke the record for Black Friday background checks as well as the overall single day record.

The line to get into Shooters gun store in Jacksonville, Florida, stretched around the corner as customers waited to get inside and buy the firearms and firearms accessories they wanted for themselves or planned to give as Christmas gifts.