Sentences with phrase «automatic weapon used»

For instance, the semi automatic weapon used in the Newtown shootings is legal in New York.

They are deeply worried that the new law will result in lay offs at the plant, which makes the Bushmaster automatic weapon used in the Newtown shootings, as well as military guns and hunting rifles.

Not exact matches

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

And roving Islamist terror groups in Africa like Boko Haram and al - Shabaab are often found using automatic weapons and I.E.D's.

In the wake of the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left 59 dead and injured hundreds more, Democrats and Republicans in both the House and Senate proposed banning bump stocks — a device the Las Vegas shooter likely used to make his semiautomatic weapon function as a fully automatic one.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

We don't yet know for certain if Stephen Paddock used an automatic weapon when he killed at least 59 people, including himself, and injured hundreds of others in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

So it's now illegal to manufacture new automatic weapons for civilian use.

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.

Congress might ban «bump stocks»: Since the Las Vegas shooting in October, there's been bipartisan support to ban a device the shooter used that can make a legal semiautomatic weapon fire more like an illegal fully automatic gun.

They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

«But... it is in the national interest that there be a dramatic reduction in the number of automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the Australian community [because] there is a clear link between the volume of powerful weapons in the community and the extent to which they are used in an indiscriminate manner.»

In subsequent decades, additional legislation was passed severely restricting the manufacture, and use by civilians, of automatic weapons.

Minya governor Essam el - Bedawi told the state media that the gunmen used automatic weapons.

But as I have noted, the actual face of recent warfare differs markedly from this, as it involves civil wars, uses of force by non-state actors, and massive harm to the innocent not from the use of horrific weapons but because they are made the direct targets of weapons ranging from knives to automatic rifles to suicide bombs.

Now I will agree with the stand point of banning fully automatic weapons, there is no sense in owning or using a fully automatic weapon.

Not one massacre has been by automatic weapons since they were regulated in 1934 When was the last time an automatic weapon was used in a massacre?

Two Democratic state senators want a law that specifically outlaws the possession or sale of so - called «bump» stocks that can modify a weapon to have it imitate an automatic rife — the use of which are already banned in New York.

President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

This week, Mr. Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

Top congressional Republicans, who have long resisted any limits on guns, signaled they would be open to banning the firearm accessory that the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, used to transform his rifles to mimic automatic weapon fire.

Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at least one of the 23 firearms recovered in Las Vegas was a semi-automatic rifle legally modified to fire like an automatic weapon, using an alteration known as a bump fire stock.

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 shooting has reignited a national debate over gun control, with particular attention paid to «bump stocks» — devices used to modify semi-automatic rifles to mimic the speed of automatic weapons.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

The House package also included a measure to study bump stocks, the devices that turn rifles into automatic - style weapons and were used in the Las Vegas assault last fall, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

«An assortment of weapons has been used in the attacks, including sticks, stones, a sword and in an instance in the Mount Elgon (area), a pistol and two automatic assault rifles,» Amnesty said.

My interest in it was how I could use this power to explore the human psyche, the way I used automatic weapons to explore the intricacies of a marriage in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, or the absurd setup in The Bourne Identity.

It totally takes me out of the film every time watching Legolas leap around like Spider - Man using his bow and arrow like some kind of automatic weapon, hate every second of it.

The scrawny teen can pick up and use various weapons ranging from automatic rifles to rocket launchers, but as alluded, the actual gunplay never really clicks.

Chuck will also have a new special attack when using automatic weapons, spraying zombies with a hail of bullets.

Using automatic weapons, Snake then storms the outpost in a huge firefight, before locating and retrieving his target.

Results were the same with Max Payne 3, as all of the semi-automatic weapons I used could now be used as automatics, but at a pretty normal rate of fire that pretty much anyone could pull off by pulling the trigger manually.

At the center of all this mayhem is the fabricator, a box where energy is deposited to and can be used for reinforcements such as weapons, spikes, automatic turrets and more.

While Max's main choice of weapon is his pistol, players can pick up and use several other types of guns including shotguns, sub-machine guns, revolvers, automatic and sniper rifles.

every weapon can be used for an automatic kill if you approach the target undetected.

Series veterans might be surprised to find that the jump back 100 years hasn't changed the weapon setup too much — there are automatic rifles, useful pistols, a couple of brilliantly powerful shotguns — and it takes a little to get used to them, but not so much that you'll feel out of depth.

Players can make use of World War I weapons like bolt - action rifles, automatic, and semi-automatic rifles, artillery, flamethrowers, and mustard gas to kill opponents from afar.

Also introduced in the update will be special GUARDIANS Advanced Style missions — these missions will offer unique challenges to players, with automatic «level caps» for the missions and restrictions on the weapon types that can be used, as well as other unique conditions.

The device known as a «bump stock» that was used to make the weapon used in the Vegas Strip shooting fully automatic was not (at time of writing) illegal because it is classified as an attachment, not a modification.

The House package also included a measure to study bump stocks, the devices that turn rifles into automatic - style weapons and were used in the Las Vegas assault last fall, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Whether it's regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons (like those used last year in the Las Vegas), or through background check for all gun sales (closing Florida's gun show loophole allowing firearm sales without background checks) or enacting legislation to keep firearms out the hands of people with mental challenges, enough is enough — it is past time for bipartisan agreement on a course of action to protect our children.

Many of Mast's supporters were stunned by his call for banning assault weapons, including the AR - 15, used in the Stoneman Douglas massacre and many other mass shootings; background checks for anyone buying a firearm; a higher minimum age for buying various categories of guns; and banning of accessories like bump stocks that make firearms perform like automatic weapons.

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