Sentence examples for checks on guns from inspiring English sources

No background checks on guns.

Our government is "insane," he said, not to adopt stronger background checks on guns that most Americans agree upon.

The data, released on Monday, also showed 2015 to be a record year for background checks on guns, with 23,141,970 checks conducted.

There is no sign of a long-term budget deal, a Senate-passed immigration plan has no clear path to approval in the House and legislation to expand background checks on guns went down in an embarrassing defeat.

But the ease with which the Christchurch gunman was able to obtain an arsenal that included semiautomatic weapons was enough to convince Ms. Ardern of the need for better checks on guns.

Imagine if you had a Republican president and a Democratic speaker, and the Democratic speaker said, well, we're not going to pass the debt ceiling unless we raise corporate taxes by 40 percent or unless we pass background checks on guns or whatever other list of agenda items Democrats were interested in.

Many states have enacted strong gun laws to supplement inadequate federal ones, including mandatory background checks on gun show sales.

Mr. Ashcroft issued a directive, later put into law, requiring that records of background checks on gun buyers be destroyed after only one business day.

All government lists, that is, except one: he specifically prohibited the F.B.I. from examining background checks on gun purchasers.

By some counts, 90% of Americans backed tighter background checks on gun sales.

It found that Congress could not compel local sheriffs to conduct background checks on gun-owners.