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Do you think Congress will vote to expand background checks?

Initiatives that would expand background checks are on the ballot in Nevada and Maine this year.

In Washington state, voters supported a measure to expand background checks for gun sales.

Approved: Nevada voters narrowly passed a measure to expand background checks, requiring that firearm transfers go through a licensed dealer.

On the federal level, a bill to expand background checks for potential gun buyers was defeated by a Republican filibuster.

Designed to encourage better prosecution of violations of the current system, it would not expand background checks.

Everytown and other gun control groups are now fighting to expand background check laws state by state.

"If we're going to expand background checks, we ought to start enforcing the laws that are on the books".

Those senators, 41 Republicans and four Democrats, killed a bill on Wednesday to expand background checks for gun buyers.

House Democrats are demanding a vote on measures to expand background checks and block gun purchases by individuals on the FBI's terror watch list.

After the Newtown massacre, the White House tried to persuade Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and to expand background checks for gun purchases.