Sentence examples for improving background checks from inspiring English sources

Last week's presidential executive order – among other things appointing a couple of hundred new Bureau of Alcohol , Tobaccoand Firearms agents, and improving background checks on sellers – is, as one cartoonist pointed out, the equivalent of asking drivers to wear a seatbelt.

It is very rare, in America, to find people who are against improving background checks, but one particular high concentration of these California condor-like creatures happens to be the GOP's two legislative caucuses.

Blunt isn't willing to write off the possibility of a ban on high-capacity magazines, but it seems clear that he's not entirely amenable to the idea -- he at the very least wants to do other things (some of which are smart, like improving background checks).

Her new bill to improve background checks is not as sweeping as the gun show bill.

It includes a ban on assault rifles and high-capacity clips, alongside improved background checks on would-be owners.

The N.R.A. has even blocked federal studies on how to improve background checks, or the effect of high-capacity ammunition clips, as The Times found last year.

Mr. Leahy said he'd introduced a measure to help law enforcement fight illegal gun trafficking; he called improved background checks "a simple matter of common sense".

Michael H. Boyle, a director of forensic and litigation services in the Miami office of KPMG, a consulting firm, said it had recently been contacted by local and county governments in Florida trying to find ways to improve background checks on employees.

Earlier this month, Obama presented a package of measures that included bans on the sale of assault rifles and high-capacity clips, alongside improved background checks on would-be owners.

Suppose you are a member of Congress and you knew that 60 percent of the people in your district favored improved background checks on gun purchases, but not in an obsessive way.

He will urge Congress to ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons, put limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines, improve background checks and prevent sales of firearms to people with mental illness.