Sentence examples for supported background from inspiring English sources

In the past, the N.R.A. had supported background checks.

After the Columbine school massacre in 1999, he supported background checks on buyers at gun shows.

In a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, 89% of those asked supported background checks on gun-show buyers, and 75% were in favour of safety locks.

He also said he supported background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but called for an approach that did not simply ban certain kind of weapons.

In a widely cited Quinnipiac University poll, ninety-seven per cent of Republicans said that they supported background checks for all gun buyers, seventy-seven per cent said that they supported mandatory waiting periods for all gun purchases, and forty-three per cent said that they supported a ban on assault weapons.

She says: "They would have to make choices between transport and eating and not every student comes from a supported background like me, not everyone has a house where they don't have to pay board or help with the costs there.

Yes, that's right, a Holocaust survivor supporting background checks.

Instead, though he supports background checks, he will not endorse anything further.

Mr. Olcott said his association would support background checks for aircraft purchasers, should the government propose them.

"There may be people who vote against me because I support background checks," he told the Guardian.

Coffman's opponent, Democrat Andrew Romanoff, supports background checks, but it is absent from the 11 key campaign issues listed on his website.