Amendment Quote by Alex Padilla

Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the…

— Lucy McBath

Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense.

— Alex Padilla

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

— Seth Moulton

Background checks are an important part of keeping guns out of the wrong hands, but they are only as good as the information in…

— Roy Cooper

I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.

— Bill Foster

Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't…

— Alan Gottlieb

There's no reason that there shouldn't be universal background checks to ensure guns don't get in the hands of people who should not have…

— Jen Psaki

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive…

— Michael D. Barnes

Universal background checks and closing existing loopholes can prevent prohibited purchasers, such as convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill and domestic abusers from accessing…

— John Fetterman

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms…

— Charles B. Rangel