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President Donald Trump met with bipartisan members of Congress on school safety at the White House on Wednesday.

Trump Urges Congress to Take Action on Guns. At meeting with lawmakers, president says Florida school killings had shifted the debate.

By Louise Radnofsky and Kristina Peterson

Updated Feb. 28, 2018 4:00 p.m. ET 155 COMMENTS

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump urged Congress to take action on gun policy and school safety, arguing the deadly shooting at a Florida high school in February had pushed the gun violence debate into a “very different period.”

In a White House meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the president said, “We can’t wait and play games and nothing gets done.” He said gun violence “can be ended, and it will be ended.”

Mr. Trump, sitting among Democratic and Republican lawmakers, invited proposals from them, interjecting with promises of support and questions.

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Mr. Trump appeared supportive of a bill from Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) that would expand background checks to all sales online and at gun shows, with some carve-outs.

Currently, federal law requires the checks only for sales by federally licensed dealers, though some states have added their own requirements. The Manchin-Toomey bill narrowly failed in the Senate in 2013, falling six votes short of the 60 needed to advance.

Mr. Trump also batted away a suggestion from House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) to include a conservative measure that would enable gun owners who legally carry concealed firearms in one state to carry them in the other 49 states. The House passed that bill in combination with a far narrower bill strengthening the background-check system in December, but Democrats are broadly opposed to the concealed-carry bill.

“You’re not going to get concealed carry approved,” Mr. Trump said in the meeting.

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Among other proposals, Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) talked up the bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) that would provide incentives for states to upload criminal-conviction records into the national criminal background-check system. Mr. Murphy also was at the meeting.

Federal law requires agencies to submit to the background-check system records relevant to whether someone should be allowed to buy a firearm, such as criminal convictions. But at the state level, compliance is voluntary unless mandated by state law or federal funding requirements.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) called on the president to consider her objections to certain types of particularly powerful weapons and handed him a letter that he promised to consider.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) said she wanted perpetrators of domestic violence to be addressed, too.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) said law enforcement, school and social-services agencies in Florida had been warned about the teenager accused of killing 17 at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, but hadn’t communicated the information among one another.

Write to Louise Radnofsky at louise.radnofsky@wsj.com and Kristina Peterson at kristina.peterson@wsj.com