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The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is the primary security agency [39] that conducts background investigations for the Federal Government, conducting 95% of all background investigations for over 100 agencies and conducting approximately 2 million background investigations each year. [citation needed]
A law requiring background checks for all gun-show sales was favored by 92 percent of Americans and a law banning the sale and possession of high-capacity magazines (defined by the poll as those capable of holding more than 10 rounds) was supported by 62 percent of Americans. A record-high 74 percent opposed a ban on handguns and 51 percent ...
The Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund advocates for the expansion of background checks before a firearm purchase to help identify people who are prohibited by federal law from owning guns. [12] Since the federal background check requirement was enacted in 1994, more than 3 million illegal gun sales have been stopped by a background check.
Rosemary Anderson High School shooting: A gunman shot three students and a man outside Rosemary Anderson High School in north Portland. A 16-year-old girl was in critical condition, while the others suffered minor injuries. Two men, aged eighteen and twenty-two, were arrested in connection with the shooting. [245] December 17, 2014 Wyoming ...
[1] [failed verification – see discussion] Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, there have been 417 cases of gun violence in schools as of September 2024. [2] The frequency of school shootings increased dramatically after 2018, with a slight decrease in 2020 during the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic. [3]
Just in the last four years, school shootings have killed more than 200 people and injured more than 600, according to a CBS News analysis of the K-12 School Shooting Database.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
List of school shootings in the United States by death toll; See also. List of mass shootings in the United States This page was last edited on 15 ...