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Add your name: I support common-sense gun safety legislation
Federal law requires background checks on gun sales at licensed dealers, but guns can be legally purchased from unlicensed sellers – online, at gun shows and even from strangers in parking lots – without any background check, no questions asked.
Sign if you agree with Nevadans for Background Checks and Daily Kos: We need common-sense gun safety legislation.
According to the Pew Research Center, there is broad and consistent support for expanded background checks for gun purchasers amongst Americans. Eighty-five percent of the public – including large majorities of both Republicans (79%) and Democrats (88%) – favored making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks.
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Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., already require a background check for all handgun sales. In these states, 46 percent fewer women are shot to death by their partners, 48 percent fewer on-duty police officers are shot and killed, 48 percent fewer people commit suicide with guns, and there is 48 percent less gun trafficking.
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/add-your-name-i-support-common-sense-gun-safety-legislation?
Sign if you agree with Nevadans for Background Checks and Daily Kos: We need common-sense gun safety legislation.
According to the Pew Research Center, there is broad and consistent support for expanded background checks for gun purchasers amongst Americans. Eighty-five percent of the public – including large majorities of both Republicans (79%) and Democrats (88%) – favored making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks.
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Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., already require a background check for all handgun sales. In these states, 46 percent fewer women are shot to death by their partners, 48 percent fewer on-duty police officers are shot and killed, 48 percent fewer people commit suicide with guns, and there is 48 percent less gun trafficking.
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/add-your-name-i-support-common-sense-gun-safety-legislation?
Common sense gun regulations are proven to work. Please sign this petition.
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