Sentences with phrase «handgun violence»

Take action against handgun violence?

Weinberg / Newton Gallery curated «The Heat» in support of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.

In case of a dispute concerning the validity of the information provided by DOT to the Attorney General, or his / her designee, it shall be a routine use of the information in any DOT system of records to make any disclosures of such information to the National Background Information Check System, established by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, as may be necessary to resolve such dispute.

It shall be a routine use of the information in any DOT system of records to provide to the Attorney General of the United States, or his / her designee, information indicating that a person meets any of the disqualifications for receipt, possession, shipment, or transport of a firearm under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

His professional experience includes working as the Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.

He voted against the 2013 gun bill because, he said, it didn't do enough to address handgun violence in cities — opposing the good because it wasn't perfect.

Richard Aborn: President, Citizens Crime Commission of New York City; President of CAAS LLC; former President, Center to Prevent Handgun Violence; former Assistant District Attorney, New York County.

Dion McGill, education program manager at the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, says we can't underestimate how aware children are of the gun violence in their city.

Not since the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the assault weapons ban in the early 1990s, which was allowed to lapse, have significant reforms been passed.

Not exact matches

Not to mention the almost daily violence and murder perpetrated with semi-automatic handguns.

Dicker has made clear his view that banning assault weapons will do little to reduce gun violence in New York, which is most often carried out with illegal handguns.

With grant support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wintemute had been conducting a retrospective cohort study looking at whether handgun buyers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those without a criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly those involving firearms and violence.

VIOLENCE / GORE 5 - A man charges toward a gunman who pulls the trigger but the gun does not discharge; the man tackles the gunman and they wrestle and punch each other, they fall onto a table where the gunman tries to shoot the man in the head with a handgun, then cuts him on the back of the neck with a knife and he almost severs the man's thumb before the man is able to subdue him; we see the unconscious gunman hogtied on the floor later.