universal background checks

ATF director Steven Dettelbach told Harvard Magazine one of his wish list items is a renewed ban on “assault weapons.”

The White House released a Fact Sheet on the universal background check rule announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Thursday, describing the rule as “life-saving.”

Joe Biden’s ATF announced a proposed rule Thursday requiring universal background checks, which Congress has rejected for more than 20 years.

Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to Saturday’s shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, by pushing gun control that would not have prevented the attack. 

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is cheering executive gun controls expected to come from the Biden Administration soon. 

Gun Owners of America (GOA) sounded the alarm Tuesday with a warning the Biden Administration is planning executive action to put universal background checks in place.

Fact Check: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on Sunday that gun violence is the leading cause of death for children.

Maine State Rep. Suzanne Salisbury (D) voiced support for gun control measures moving through the state legislature, suggesting lawmakers have to look beyond the Second Amendment and act in light of “real world experience.”

Three people were shot and killed in Farmington, New Mexico, despite the state’s red flag and universal background check laws.

An audio recording captured by Congressional Republicans in 2018 presents Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) challenger, Colin Allred (D), suggesting things would be better in the U.S. if the Second Amendment had not been written.

President Joe Biden pushed for an “assault weapons” ban, a gun storage law, universal background checks, and the ability the to sue gun manufacturers before details about Saturday’s Alabama birthday party shooting were known.

Benton County, Minnesota, Sheriff Troy Heck posted a letter on Facebook over the weekend expressing his conviction that violent criminals will ignore new gun controls in much the same way as they ignore the old ones.

On Tuesday President Joe Biden continued his push for universal background checks but did not mention that such checks require a gun registry in order to be viable.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded to President Biden’s Tuesday executive order on background checks by noting the president is pushing gun controls that have already failed.

During a Tuesday gun control announcement, President Joe Biden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to act where Congress has not and take the U.S. “as close as possible” to universal background checks.

President Biden plans to use an executive order Tuesday to move the country closer to universal background checks and other controls that Congress has refused to pass.

Reuters noted Friday that Germany’s stringent gun control failed to prevent the attack which resulted in the deaths of six innocents and the alleged shooter the previous day.

The gunman who opened fire inside a gay nightclub, Club Q, in Colorado Springs saturday night was disarmed by patrons inside the establishment.

Senate candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) wants to end the filibuster so Democrats can push through a gun ban for “assault weapons.”

An August 17 Tampa Bay Times editorial board op-ed points to mass shootings in which the attacker passed background checks as a way of arguing for background checks. 

CLAIM: During his Thursday night primetime speech President Biden claimed that we  “should expand background checks” and talked of how such checks would keep guns out of the wrong hands.  

March for Our Lives formed in the wake of the February 14, 2018, Parkland High School shooting and they are now pushing gun control that would not have prevented that shooting from taking place. 

President Biden announced Thursday the attacker that shot NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora used a Glock handgun, and he described the handgun as a “weapon of war.” 

Four people were killed and others, including a police officer, were wounded during a shooting spree in Colorado late Monday afternoon. 

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shut down a Democrat gun control push Thursday, saying it would not prevent shootings but would hamper the law-abiding in exercising Second Amendment rights. 

As of October 19, 2021, Portland, Oregon, has surpassed the record number of homicides for a given year with 67 homicides year-to-date.

A White House Fact Sheet previewing President Biden’s Wednesday afternoon speech suggests he push for Congress to pass universal background checks and other gun controls which are already failing in Los Angeles and New York.

Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo reacted to Sunday’s targeted attack on rapper ABMG Spitta’s album release party by calling for universal background checks.

The 57-year-old Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) maintenance worker who shot and killed 8 innocents on Wednesday used handguns that were acquired “legally” and “registered” in compliance with California law. 

Fourteen people were shot, two fatally, at a house party in Fairfield Township, New Jersey, Saturday night. 

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is still seeking “compromise language” for Democrat gun control, the Washington Post reported.

Colorado Democrats are pushing a number of gun controls in response to last month’s Boulder shooting, including the creation an Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP).

During his April 28, 2021, speech to Congress, President Biden called for a ban on “high-capacity magazines that hold 100 rounds.”

Democrats in the Ohio House are pushing a red flag law and universal background checks, among other gun controls.

One innocent was killed when 45-year-old Za Uk Lian allegedly opened fire in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning.

During a March 28, 2021, interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted that Democrats probably cannot round up 60 votes for the universal background check legislation contained in H.R. 8.