Sentences with phrase «assault weapon he would»

The falloff in support for restricting assault weapons has come from all partisan groups, but has been starkest among Republicans and independents.

Assault weapons have no place in society.

Can anyone argue that the mass shootings using assault weapons haven't created a sense of «terror» similar to the various bombings?

«The frustration at a society that would allow a madman to buy an assault weapon has gone on for too long,» Cuomo said.

«Assault weapons have no legitimate purpose on the streets of America.

Gov. Scott said a ban on assault weapons would «not fix the problem» and would hurt «law - abiding citizens.»

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says he hopes to wrap up what he calls «fruitful» discussions shortly, was asked whether a strengthened ban on assault weapons would be part of the deal.

Not exact matches

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

Dick's Sporting Goods is destroying its unsold assault - style guns after announcing in February that it would stop selling the weapons.

The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.

On Wednesday, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer sell assault - style weapons.

«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.

«Why would anyone want to help finance assault weapons that are regularly used in mass shootings?»

As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

BREAKING: DC area man with five draft deferments who mocked tortured war hero John McCain for being captured says he believes he would confront an active shooter — with an AR - 15 assault weapon — unarmed.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front» when asked about a broader ban on assault weapons on Feb. 20.

Democrats have embraced the issue, while Republican congressional leaders and Trump haven't moved to adopt measures such as ending assault - weapon sales.

When he went on to say, we're putting our lives on the line, we've got to do better and people who should care about protecting police officers should be committed to getting assault weapons off the streets to start with.

In 2000, he said he supported a ban on assault weapons and a longer waiting period to purchase a gun, but during his campaign, he has been a vocal proponent of Second Amendment rights and has said he will end gun - free zones.

Dick's kicked off the trend on Wednesday with an announcement that it would stop selling assault - style weapons and require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.

The combined U.S., British and French assault involved more missiles, but appears to have struck more limited targets, than a similar strike Trump ordered a year ago in retaliation for an earlier suspected chemical weapons attack.

«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.

This would leave millions of assault weapons in our communities for decades to come,» Swalwell wrote.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

Some 50 dead at the hands of a self - declared ISIS supporter with an automatic assault weapon, in the midst of the most polarized presidential election the country has experienced in the post-war period.

In the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, some have argued for a reinstatement of the nationwide ban on assault weapons, while others have suggested that the solution lies in improving access to mental - health care.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

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.

Only New York, California, Washington, D.C., and five other states have their own assault - weapon bans, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Carmen Schentrup would have celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday had she not been gunned down in a hail of bullets from an AR - 15 semi-automatic assault weapon on February 14 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by an expelled student who had bought the gun legally when he was just 18 years old.

In the aftermath of the Parkland and Las Vegas shootings, some retail stores such as Dick's Sporting Goods have stopped selling assault - style weapons.

It never should have been that an 18 - year - old could buy an assault weapon.

In the state legislature, The Columbus Dispatch reports that Democrats have introduced a bill that would ban assault weapons in the state and seek to remove any existing guns that fall under that category.

Congress might raise the age from 18 to 21 to buy assault weapons: This policy hasn't really been on the radar of gun - control advocates, who would prefer tightly regulating or banning these kinds of weapons.

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

Someone who should never have had access to any weapon — let alone an assault weapon capable of mowing people down — was able to walk onto a campus, kill at least 17 people and irrevocably change the lives of many, many more.

Asked about a broader ban on assault weapons, Ms. Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front.»

But it left out many of the biggest provisions the students and their supporters had sought, including bans on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

Once it became clear that a majority of the Florida Legislature was not inclined to ban all assault weapons, Senator Oscar Braynon, a Democrat, proposed an amendment to the gun control bill that would have halted AR - 15 sales for two years.

The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.

After all, Cook County already has a ban assault weapons; semi-automatic handguns are the kind of weapon most commonly used in shootings.

«After a mass shooting at a school, you don't have to be the sharpest tack in the box to understand when another student posts a photo of an assault weapon why school security personnel and police might ask questions,» tweeted Pittman, who said he owns two guns but no assault rifles.

The hospital has updated its drills to include an accelerated process of police screening of the medical staff most urgently needed, and its training videos now show an attacker armed with an assault weapon rather than a small handgun.

It would outlaw the manufacture or possession of bump stocks or trigger cranks which turn rifles into assault - style weapons.

It is not the sort of issue, such as assault weapons, on which the commission needs to act because the Legislature has shown that it won't.

Its members had sat impassively at hearings around the state as citizens pleaded with the Constitution Revision Commission for the chance to ban assault weapons.

A smaller majority also thought metal detectors in schools and a ban on assault - style weapons would be helpful.

The use of high - powered semiautomatic rifles in recent mass shootings, including by Cruz, police say, and in last year's killing of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, has sparked calls to reinstate the 10 - year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004.

You would think if they had any «faith» in an all powerful diety who knows them and cares about them and protects them they would not need all those assault weapons «just in case»...

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.