Sentences with phrase «automatic weapons like»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

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

It backs legislation in Congress that would provide more data to the background check system and calls for a ban on accessories like bump stocks that make firearms function more like automatic weapons.

Rubio said he also supported the banning of bump fire stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons, and a bolstered background check system.

Trump repeated his pledge to unilaterally do away with bump stocks — devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons — which he said would give lawmakers one less issue to worry about.

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.

In the wake of this weekend's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) proposed a ban on the «bump stock,» a device that makes semiautomatic weapons function like automatic ones, which are generally banned in the United States.

They do nothing more than LOOK LIKE automatic weapons.

Do you think that people need to have access to all kinds of automatic weapons and unlimited amount of ammunition because some of them like to hunt?

The weapons being discussed here merely look like military weapons, and are incapable of automatic fire.

Number one, AR - 15s are semi-automatic just like handguns (fully automatic weapons are already illegal and should remain so).

A single pull of a trigger with a bump stock equipped firearm can produce a continuous flow of bullets, like an automatic weapon.

More than 80 percent of Americans at least somewhat favor a ban on «bump stocks» that make rifles fire much like automatic weapons.

State lawmakers in Albany are making a push to ban the possession and sale of devices like bump stocks that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic rifle.

The device allows guns to fire more rapidly, like automatic weapons.

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.

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.

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 addition to the waiting period, the new law includes raising the minimum age for gun purchasers from 18 to 21 and a ban on bump stocks — an add - on that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon with a single pull of the trigger.

In fact, it's more like the biathlon of the game world, except instead of skiing and shooting, you chase people and things on high - speed vehicles, fire automatic weapons, and play poker.

Tracking refers to attempting to keep your crosshair aimed at your target at all times — useful for DPS characters with automatic weapons, like Overwatch's Soldier: 76 and Tracer.

These zealots go to great lengths to show their power, armed with automatic weapons and going so far as to carve words like «sin» into the good people's skin.

Only if I pressed down a little harder than usual would the gun fire like a fully automatic weapon.

With ammo being utterly finite and quite easy to burn through with a fully automatic weapon, knowing when to take advantage and replenish between waves feels like a crucial part of the Metal Gear Survive experience.

Ranged weapons, I liked the automatic shotgun (bullets bounce around a bit), laser rifle (watch out these burn ammo fast), and the heavy crossbow (it may be slow but it's a one shot kill)

Some weapons quickly become favorites, like the automatic shotgun that obliterates enemies in a single shot.

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.

Automatic German weapons like the MG42 machine gun and the STG44 will also make an appearance.

Some weapons quickly become favorites, like the automatic shotgun that obliterates enemies in a single shot.

- Ban the sale or possession of bump fire stocks, which allow a semiautomatic weapon to fire more like an automatic weapon;

Trump repeated his pledge to unilaterally do away with bump stocks - devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons - which he said would give lawmakers one fewer issue to worry about.

At a CNN town hall Wednesday, Gonzalez pressed National Rifle Assn. spokeswoman Dana Loesch on whether she believed it should be harder to obtain semiautomatic weapons and modifications, like «bump stocks,» that make them fully automatic.

Like the new law, Martinez's amendment also called for banning «bump stocks,» devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to mimic automatic guns.

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.

Instead, there was a more nuanced discussion about banning a device few had even heard of before the Las Vegas rampage: bump fire stocks, also known as bump stocks, a small attachment that when placed on a semiautomatic weapon allows the gun to fire more like an automatic weapon — extracting even more carnage.

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.

He called for several other changes, including banning accessories that make firearms perform like automatic weapons, increasing the age for buying various categories of firearms, and preventing people who have been detained for mental illness or ordered to get treatment from buying firearms.

Instead, Pence pointed to Trump's call for members of Congress to «strengthen background checks» and for the Justice Department to expedite new regulations for «bump stocks,» devices that can convert a legal semiautomatic weapon into one that fires like a fully automatic one.