Sentences with phrase «assault weapon ban»

The wide - ranging bill implemented a host of liberal policies, including an assault weapon ban and the Violence Against Women Act.

They're saying [they want] a strong assault weapon ban [and to] ban high capacity magazines.

Petty said he supports Scott's proposal without the assault weapon ban because he wants action now.

The speech came shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and Cuomo focused on his seven - point SAFE Act that featured the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, required more stringent background checks for gun sales, and banned direct ammo sales over the internet.

«We passed the Brady Bill and the assault weapon ban... and the blood was on the floor,» Clinton said.

«I supported the assault weapon ban.»

Just like alcohol and drugs an assault weapon ban will turn law abiding citizens into criminals.

The assault weapon ban was SOOOO successful in stopping gun crimes the LAST time, liberals want to do it again... What is the definition of insanity?

Boys and girls, the 1994 assault weapon ban did NOTHING to stem gun violence.

They plan to circulate petitions to put an assault weapon ban on the 2020 ballot if neither the Revision Commission nor the Legislature responds adequately by then.

The same CBS poll found that 78 % of Democrats support an assault weapons ban, compared to 45 % of Republicans.

After attributing their presidential loss in 2000 in part to the assault weapons ban, Democrats shied away from gun control talk in order to avoid alienating rural voters, particularly blue collar white males.

Strickland supports background checks and has opened the door to backing an assault weapons ban.

Clinton faulted the Vermont senator even though, reflecting his party, he too now backs an assault weapons ban and tighter background checks.

But President Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democrats» presumptive presidential nominee, are among many top Democrats also calling for reinstating an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.

«So I think that if we just run against her record as it has been, she voted to take away our guns, she voted for an assault weapons ban.

Dick's assault weapons ban shows how companies are making decisions on issues that might even hurt their bottom lines, says Prof. Megan Kashner.

«Reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 would prohibit manufacture and sales, but it would not affect weapons already possessed.

We need to digitize gun - sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun - show loopholes and straw - man purchases, ban high - capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

Rubio said he believed Guttenberg was telling the truth and that someone like the alleged killer should not have had access to any firearm, but that the assault weapons ban was too easily circumventable and poorly crafted.

In one moment, he maintained his composure while explaining his refusal to back an assault weapons ban while face - to - face with the grieving father of a teenager killed in last week's shooting.

At the town hall, Rubio faced Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was murdered during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last week, and stood by his opposition to the assault weapons ban.

This was one day after the Florida state House declined to take up an assault weapons ban, which made the students angrier and even more eloquent.

Meanwhile, President Trump — who was in favor of an assault weapons ban and longer waiting periods before his National Rifle Association - supported presidential campaign — ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning the bump stocks used to convert semi-automatic guns into automatic weapons.

, a proponent of an assault weapons ban.

That bill (HB 157), a largely symbolic resolution, is sponsored by Spano, who chairs the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, the first committee assigned to hear the assault weapons ban.

America's attention to gun control often focuses on a few specific measures: universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illnesses buying firearms, and an assault weapons ban, for example.

But when it came to the assault weapons ban sought by Parkland's survivors - turned - activists, that was a fight with the NRA that Scott wasn't willing to risk.

An assault weapons ban will be proposed to the commission, which should approve that instead of Proposal 96.

The students marching didn't expect a perfect world either, but they spoke about what they described as commonsense gun reform — universal background checks, assault weapons bans, waiting periods.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

Support for an assault weapons ban grew from 56 to 61 percent.

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.

Mitt Romney, who as governor signed an assault weapons ban into law, raised taxes on business by 20 %, was publically pro-choice and introduced «socialized medicine» (their term not mine) to the nation.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

We already have an assault weapons ban since the thirties.

Elliott Hartstein, the village's former mayor and the only person to support the village's decision during the public hearing, said a meaningful assault weapons ban should be discussed, but the latest Buffalo Grove proposal was only about local control.

This graphic from the Violence Policy Center shows the modifications made to popular guns to make them compliant with the assault weapons ban.

Schneiderman passed the assault weapons ban and helped evict drug dealers who are holding our neighborhoods hostage.

The bill updates the state's assault weapons ban, reduces the number of bullets in a magazine from 10 to seven and strengthens criminal penalties for illegal guns.

UPDATE: A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Lentol is wrong, and the assault weapons ban does, in fact, take effect immediately, too.

Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long warned today that Senate Republicans risk eroding their base in New York after allowing a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation that updates the state's assault weapons ban.

So far, we've learned during this debate that the assault weapons ban portion of the act doesn't take effect for 90 days, in order to give the State Police time to set up the required registry.

We used to have an assault weapons ban.

«If we're going to get an assault weapons ban passed in the United States House, I think we need to make sure that that bill focuses specifically on the high - capacity elements of that law,» he said.

Paladino was here last week for a rally that, if anything, highlighted the struggles within the conservative voter base over the measure, even if polls show most New Yorkers are in favor of updating the state's assault weapons ban.