In recent years, even gun control groups have quietly moved away from a focus on assault weapons, arguing that other gun laws, particularly expanding requirements for background checks on gun sales, would be likely to save more lives.
House Democrats have been pushing for Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, to allow votes on measures to make it more difficult for people on terrorism watchlists to buy guns, as well as to expand requirements for background checks on gun sales.
He voted in 1999 against a proposal that would have established much more stringent requirements for background checks on people buying firearms at gun shows.
Authorities also worry about terrorists transporting hazardous materials or themselves on private aircraft, said Michal Morgan, TSA head of general aviation security.The rules will affect the 15,000 private planes and 4,700 small airports in America and are likely to include stringent requirements for background checks on employees and access to parked planes.
With no requirements for background checks on most private transactions, a Times examination found, Armslist and similar sites function as unregulated bazaars, where the essential anonymity of the Internet allows unlicensed sellers to advertise scores of weapons and people legally barred from gun ownership to buy them.
The measures included a ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines, a requirement for background checks on those buying bullets, and new restrictions on semiautomatic rifles.
Be flexible on background requirements, but continue to be stringent on personality traits.
The walkouts were also at least ostensibly geared toward more controversial and politically volatile measures like a ban on assault weapons, a requirement for background checks for all gun sales, and some kind of gun violence restraining-order law.
AB 1289: This bill would increase background check requirements on ride-hailing drivers.
Although regulators should insist on background checks to stop criminal groups, we should avoid extreme investment limitations and residency requirements.
