claim: "the nra supported background checks..."
author: kathleen murphy
evidence_1: apr 19, 2013 ... fact checker | obama claims that the nra once supported expanded  background checks. what really happened in 1999?
evidence_2: aug 5, 2015 ... the senate's second most powerful republican is pitching his own plan to  prevent the mentally ill from obtaining firearms — and he's gotten ...
evidence_3: feb 28, 2018 ... the nra originated the idea of and supported an instant background check by  the fbi on all firearm buyers. that became nics. the interim ...
evidence_4: feb 27, 2018 ... "seventy to 80 percent of nra members support a universal background check,"  ryan said on cnn's new day feb. 20, days after the shooting ...
evidence_5: feb 23, 2018 ... as we have written, the nra proposed instant background checks in ... act. the  nra backed instant background checks — even though the ...