Among other goals, the president said he aims to require a "universal background check" for everyone buying a gun (about 40% of gun sales are not covered now), a prohibition on the sale of "military-style assault weapons," a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets, and a push for better mental health care.
It's time for a serious reality check for everyone involved.
One, strict background checks for everyone who is already in the program and those who want to join.
It would mean constant ID checks for everyone — citizens, too — with immigration police at the federal, state and local levels.
Mr. Putin has laid out a program of raising wages for doctors and teachers, padding retirement checks for everyone and refurbishing Russia's military arsenal.
Some 74% would like to see criminal background checks for everyone buying a gun, in contrast to current laws that allow private sellers dealing through gun shows and online to by-pass such safeguards.
The Danes have always been less well disposed towards immigrants than their Swedish neighbours, and the hardening Danish line is to some extent only a reaction to the turnaround in Swedish policy towards refugees that came into force on Sunday morning with the introduction of ID checks for everyone entering Sweden from Denmark.
"This is about creating a wide, and inclusive, alternative to cash and checks for everyone," is how Early Warning CEO Paul Finch couched it, speaking at the Money 20/20 payments industry conference in Las Vegas.
Clinton countered back by inviting people to visit her site, where she was providing "real-time fact-checking" for everyone's edification.
The only thing I deep down in my heart want to see happen is universal background checks for everyone, for private sales, for the gun shows.
By now, you've probably already heard that the Senate voted down a gun control proposal yesterday actually, they voted down a lot of different proposals, but the one that got the most attention was an amendment, proposed by Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, and Pat Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, that would have essentially mandated background checks for everyone who buys a gun.
