Sentences with phrase «automatic firearms»

Fully automatic firearms are often depicted in movies, but in real life they're a rare commodity except to members of the military.

Inside a tornado - proof vault, dozens of automatic firearms worth millions of dollars hang on the walls.

Banning the sale of accessories and add - ons that circumvent the ban on automatic firearms, and increasing the ages at which individuals can purchase various categories of firearms.

Lawmakers in New York and Connecticut are pushing to ban the sale and possession of «bump stocks,» devices that convert semiautomatic weapons into automatic firearms.

Lawmakers in the New York region are starting the new year with a drive to ban the sale and possession of «bump stocks,» devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to essentially act as automatic firearms.

Unlike automatic firearms, which fire continuously while the trigger is pulled, semiautomatic weapons fire one round per trigger pull.

A ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity ammunition clips, and products that modify semi-automatic firearms to enable them to function like automatic firearms.

In general, offences involving handguns or fully - automatic firearms carry severe penalties.

Lost in the middle of all this was an announcement at the beginning of 2013 that Canada was now prepared to add Colombia to a list of approved countries for possible sales of automatic firearms by Canadian companies.

But at the same time, the government doesn't blink about giving a green light to possible sales of fully automatic firearms with high capacity magazines?

I want to know about the legal definitions of automatic firearms in the US.

Bump stocks make semi-automatic weapons mimic fully automatic firearms and drew widespread attention after a mass shooting last year in Las Vegas.

The council also removed specific demands that called for «banning military - grade assault rifles; requiring background checks on all gun purchases; banning the sale of accessories and add - ons such as bump stocks that circumvent the ban on automatic firearms; and prohibiting the sale of firearms to individuals on a terrorist watch list.»

House Speaker Paul Ryan called for regulatory action — not legislation — on bump stocks, the device used by the Las Vegas shooter to convert semi-automatic weapons into automatic firearms, calling that the fastest and most efficient way to address this problem.

The Winter Soldier utilizes an array of weaponry such as automatic firearms and grenades as well as a powerful uppercut to devastate his opponents which makes him a unique addition to the cast.

For example, the purchase of fully automatic firearms is largely banned already, and I can not purchase an AT - 4 rocket, grenades, a Bradley fighting vehicle or an Abrams tank.

On Saturday, NBA star LeBron James tweeted support for students marching for gun control, but it was only four years ago that he visited the gun range shooting fully automatic firearms.

Defining what constitutes an assault or tactical firearm and not allowing them for future purchase — just as we already prohibit the purchase of fully automatic firearms.

I worry when anyone wants to say that automatic firearms are dangerous, silencers (suppressors) are dangerous etc..

While bump stocks simulate the same action of an automatic firearm, they are not fully automatic and so have not been banned by the ATF.

Cuomo said Wednesday the automatic firearm ban will be his first proposal in his 2018 State of the State address.

Automatic firearms are forbidden for civilian use.

I don't care about what people think an automatic firearm is, just about what legally qualifies one as such.

An automatic firearm delivers a continuous stream of bullets as long as the trigger is held, while a semi-automatic weapon requires a new pull of the trigger for each bullet.

In addition to calling for a ban on future assault weapon sales, Mast said he supports universal background checks, a ban on the sale of «accessories and add - ons that circumvent the ban on automatic firearms» and a ban on gun sales to individuals who «have been detained for mental illness» or are «being looked at as a possible terrorist» by the government.

The ban on bump stocks, which make semi-automatic weapons mimic fully automatic firearms, was included in a law passed this month in response to the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 14 students and three staff members dead and 17 injured.