Sentences with phrase «ban large capacity»

Only seven other states have laws that ban large capacity magazines.

The City Councils in LA and NYC introduced simultaneous resolutions today in support of federal legislation to ban large capacity ammunition magazines of the sort used by alleged Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner.

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Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear the bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Following the town hall, Sen. Bob Menendez noted Rubio's stated openness to banning large - capacity magazines — and invited his Republican colleague to sign on to cosponsoring a bill to do just that.

Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large - capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

Assault weapons and large - capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment, a federal judge said in a ruling Friday upholding Massachusetts» ban on the weapons.

Aborn, the former Brady Campaign president, is credited with spearheading the effort to include the original ban on large - capacity magazines in the assault weapons ban.

He's cherry - picking his talking points directly from the NRA playbook, which likes to cite that study because it sidesteps one important fact: That 1990s legislation, while it banned high - capacity magazines, grandfathered in an estimated 25 million large - capacity magazines.

The provision being upheld is a ban on semi-automatic weapons and as well as a ban on large - capacity ammunition magazines.

Vincent D'Onofrio, star of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, is making a rare public appearance in a Citizens Crime Commission Web video that advocates for Long Island Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's bill banning large - capacity ammunition magazines like those used the LIRR and Tucson shootings.

A federal judge has upheld most of New York's new gun control law, rejecting arguments that its bans on large - capacity magazines and the sale of some semi-automatic rifles violate Second Amendment rights.

New York and Connecticut banned possession of semi-automatic weapons and large - capacity magazines after 20 first - graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012.

A federal appeals court has upheld key provisions of New York and Connecticut laws banning possession of semi-automatic assault weapons and large - capacity magazines.

In Florida on Tuesday, the Republican - controlled State House rejected an effort to immediately consider a bill to ban large - capacity magazines and the type of assault rifles used in last week's attack, even as students from Stoneman Douglas High School watched from the gallery.

Support for banning assault weapons among all respondents decreased from 69 percent in 2013 to 63 percent in 2015, and support for banning the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines decreased from 68 percent to 60 percent.

Many of the preferred measures stayed about the same, but bans on assault weapons and large - capacity magazines or restrictions on ammunition purchases were determined to have more of an effect on mass shootings than everyday gun violence.

The NRA stand in the way of commonsense bans on large capacity weapons that no one should need for hunting or to carry around with them unless they plan on being in a war.

Largely in response to mass shootings in places such as Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado, Fort Hood, Texas, and Virginia Tech, in 2013, the General Assembly of Maryland enacted the Firearm Safety Act («FSA»), which bans military - style rifles and shotguns (referred to as «assault weapons») and detachable large - capacity magazines.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN)- The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.

House Rep. Kionne McGhee of Miami invoked the Parkland shooting in requesting that HB 219 — which would ban AR - 15 rifles and other guns defined as «assault weapons» and large capacity magazines — be moved from committee to the House floor for questions, debate and a vote.

While the students were watching in the gallery, the Florida House voted against discussing a ban on semi-automatic guns such as the AR - 15 rifle and large capacity magazines.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear the bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

Democratic Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith pushed for bans on assault rifles and large capacity detachable magazines after the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando.