1.   An extension of the Brady law, it would give all vendors at gun shows three business days to conduct mandatory background checks on customers.

2.   A Democrat-sponsored provision approved by the Senate in May required all vendors at gun shows to conduct mandatory background checks on customers within three days.

3.   Bush said through his aides last week that he opposed the Democratic amendment that included mandatory background checks on gun-show purchases.

4.   Carnahan was quick to attack Ashcroft on Wednesday after Ashcroft opposed a Democratic amendment requiring mandatory background checks at gun shows that was part of a youth violence bill.

5.   Deacy said the measure included mandatory background checks, licenses and permits, and payment of city taxes.

6.   Did Bush support an amendment requiring mandatory background checks of purchasers at gun shows?

7.   He also wants mandatory state background checks for all sales.

8.   He said the agreement may call for mandatory background checks at gun shows, a ban on large capacity ammunition clips and mandatory trigger locks on all guns sold.

9.   He said that the Democratic proposal for mandatory background checks at gun shows, which he and five other Senate Republicans supported, was just such a measure.

10.   It became clearer, for example, that the most spirited fight would come over the terms and language governing mandatory background checks of buyers at gun shows.