After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, multiple gun laws were  proposed in the United States at the federal and state levels. The shooting  renewed debate about gun control. The debates focused on requiring  background checks on all firearm sales (called universal background checks),  and on passing new and ...
Apr 18, 2013 ... In a major defeat for supporters of tougher gun laws, the U.S. Senate on  Wednesday defeated a compromise plan to expand background checks on  firearms sales as well as a proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons  modeled after military assault weapons. The votes were on a series of ...
Mar 22, 2017 ... A gun owner crossing state lines with a legally registered firearm can land in  prison under what critics say is a “patchwork” of laws that have little to do with  public safety. ADVERTISEMENT. A bill working its way to President Trump's desk  could change that, by allowing gun owners who are allowed to carry ...
Aug 10, 2016 ... In the 1990s heyday of the Brady Bill and assault weapons ban, she was a vocal  advocate, and made the establishment of a national gun registry a major  proposal in her 2000 bid for Senate in New York. In the 2000s, like fellow  Democrats from John Kerry to Howard Dean, she moderated her position, ...
Jan 6, 2017 ... One of the first gun bills introduced in the new Congress proposes to dramatically  alter the way states regulate who can carry concealed firearms within their  borders. Under the legislation filed by Congressman Richard Hudson, a North  Carolina Republican, gun owners — including those from states no ...
Says a gun bill before the Senate "is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners."