Sentence examples for checks for firearms from inspiring English sources

This November, the FBI ran 2.2m background checks for firearms.

The measure would have expanded background checks for firearms purchases at gun shows and on the Internet.

I saw the news that you won't run for reelection in Montana, a week after you voted against universal background checks for firearms.

The F.B.I. statistics show increases in the number of background checks for firearms sales and other transactions from September through November.

And a group including Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, is preparing legislation that would allow for a more stringent system of background checks for firearms buyers.

Coloradans voted down a measure that would have required a 24-hour waiting period for abortions, but passed an initiative requiring background checks for firearms purchases at gun shows (as did Oregonians).

She and Mr. Schumer recommended new measures, including requiring background checks for firearm purchases at private gun shows.

This policy has widespread support: a July 2014 poll found that 92% of Americans supported universal background checks for firearm purchases.

He compiled a list of  the 50 states ranked according to how many background checks for firearm purchases had taken place in each state.

The Democrat-controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by President Barack Obama in 2013 that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases to gun shows and online sales.

The gun lobby still disagrees with Mr. McCain because he favors background checks for firearm sales at gun shows and pushed through campaign finance regulations that restricted political advertising by groups like the N.R.A.