Sentences with phrase «ammunition sale background»

The minority conference questioned the legality of the MOU, signed by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and state Operations Director Jim Malatras, which seemed to derail creation of a database for ammunition sale background checks.

Last night, during his first extended interview on CapTon since he became speaker back in February, Carl Heastie said his conference will be following the Senate Democrats» lead, and won't seek a legal remedy to the MOU that seems to indefinitely delay creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a beating from fellow Democrats and left - leaning entities like the Working Families Party for agreeing to suspend the creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks — a provision of the controversial gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

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Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Cuomo said he won't rush for the completion of a stalled database for background checks on ammunition sales that was part of New York's controversial gun - control law in 2013.»

Republican Sen. James Seward, a critic of the so - called «SAFE Act,» said Friday a moratorium on Internet sales of ammunition will be lifted and development of a statewide database requiring background checks for ammunition buyers is being suspended.

Rice said she supports banning the sale of military - style assault weapons and high - capacity ammunition and closing «loopholes that allow violent felons, domestic abusers, and people with dangerous mental illnesses to avoid background checks and buy guns.»

The new law expanded the ban on automatic weapons and big ammunition magazines and requires background checks for private gun sales, changes that are an improvement to public safety.

Ammunition sales and background checks are made more restrictive.

Among other goals, the president said he aims to require a «universal background check» for everyone buying a gun (about 40 % of gun sales are not covered now), a prohibition on the sale of «military - style assault weapons,» a ban on high - capacity ammunition magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets, and a push for better mental health care.

A bill requiring ammunition background checks was also signed, and another banning the sale of semiautomatic rifles equipped with bullet buttons.

There is also an online petition to demand Congress pass laws to ban assault weapons, prohibit the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines, and close loopholes in background check laws for gun sales.

New York also will soon require background checks for ammunition sales, Wasserman Schultz's staff said.

They passed a resolution urging state and federal lawmakers to pass gun control measures, including restricting the sale of ammunition and gun modifiers, to ban assault weapons, to limit the number of firearms a person can own, and institute a universal background check.