Sentence examples for check initiative from inspiring English sources

Dave Workman, communications director for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said gun owners feared that the background check initiative could lead to "a de facto gun registry".

To turn the situation around, Kraft sent in three senior leaders to head up a "blank check" initiative, which gave them the freedom within a set time frame (12 months) to make any changes they saw fit.

"After Newtown, there couldn't have been a more powerful moment to get this done," said Ethan Strimling, a former state legislator in Maine and a leader in discussions there about putting a background check initiative on the ballot as early as next year.

Maine's background check initiative failed on a narrow margin.

The passage of the 2016 background check initiative, despite heavy spending against it by the National Rifle Assn., reflected that shift as well.

In Nevada, voters passed a state background check initiative despite a $6.6 million opposition campaign by the National Rifle Association, according to Everytown.

And then the cold war settled in, and each side used its veto, or the threat of one, to check initiatives dear to the other.

The dueling ballot measures are the only two gun background check initiatives in the nation that will go before voters this November.

As The Post's Adam Taylor has explained, the wave of criticism led to a fact-checking initiative by Bellingcat, a website which uses open-source information and social media to aid investigations.

He has spent $4 million of his own money to qualify what he calls the "no blank checks" initiative for the 2016 ballot.

Dubbed the "No Blank Checks" initiative by its proponents, Proposition 53 presents itself as a safeguard against unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats running up state residents' costs through revenue-bond issues for bloated construction projects.